THAWY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. THAWY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept THAWY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful THAWY is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for THAWY
No single letter turns THAWY into another word.
How THAWY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in THAWY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does THAWY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Inclined to melt, or having weather mild enough to cause snow and ice to thaw.
The adjective thawy describes conditions, most often weather, that sit right on the edge of melting, warm enough to soften frost and snow without necessarily being warm in any other sense. Weather called thawy is built plainly from thaw plus the ordinary adjective ending -y, matching common patterns like rainy or frosty, yet it never became as common as those everyday weather words. The word turns up mostly in older or more literary writing about winter weather rather than in ordinary conversation, where a phrase like mild or above freezing would be used instead.
How THAWY is used
A rare, mainly literary adjective for melting or thawing conditions, seldom used in everyday speech.
- The morning was thawy, and icicles dripped from the eaves.
- A thawy wind had softened the frozen path overnight.
- They welcomed the thawy spell after weeks of hard frost.
- The snow turned thawy and slushy by midday.
- A thawy afternoon left puddles across the yard.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of THAWY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in THAWY
Common questions about THAWY
- Is THAWY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and THAWY is not in it.
- How many points is THAWY worth?
- THAWY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does THAWY mean?
- Inclined to melt, or having weather mild enough to cause snow and ice to thaw.
- What letters can be added to THAWY?
- No single letter can be added to THAWY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of THAWY:
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