THIRTY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. THIRTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept THIRTY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful THIRTY is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for THIRTY
No single letter turns THIRTY into another word.
How THIRTY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in THIRTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 2 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 367,917.
What stands out about THIRTY
- THIRTY gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does THIRTY mean in Scrabble?
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The number that equals three times ten, written 30.
Thirty comes after twenty-nine and before thirty-one, and it can be used as a number, as a count of things, or as a noun. The plural thirties names the years from thirty to thirty-nine in a life or in a century, as in the thirties of the last century. Its name goes back to an old compound meaning three tens, in the same way as forty and fifty.
How THIRTY is used
Ordinary number word; the plural thirties refers to a decade of age or of a century.
- There were thirty students in the hall.
- She turned thirty last spring.
- The bus leaves in thirty minutes.
- Count to thirty before you open your eyes.
- He paid thirty pounds for the old clock.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of THIRTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with THIRTY
3 longer words begin with THIRTY.
Shorter words from the letters in THIRTY
Common questions about THIRTY
- Is THIRTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts THIRTY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is THIRTY worth?
- THIRTY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does THIRTY mean?
- The number that equals three times ten, written 30.
- What letters can be added to THIRTY?
- No single letter can be added to THIRTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of THIRTY:
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