THYMY is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. THYMY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept THYMY?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful THYMY is to know. It scores 16 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 2.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for THYMY
No single letter turns THYMY into another word.
How THYMY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in THYMY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 2 | 2 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,137 thousand.
What does THYMY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literarypoetic
Smelling of or covered with the herb thyme.
A thymy hillside or thymy air suggests wild thyme spreading low over open ground, releasing its scent as it is brushed or crushed underfoot. The word appears mostly in descriptive and poetic writing about landscape rather than in ordinary conversation. It evokes a dry, fragrant, sun-warmed place rather than describing thyme used in cooking.
How THYMY is used
Found chiefly in literary or poetic descriptions of countryside and rarely used in everyday speech.
- They walked across a thymy meadow above the cliffs.
- The thymy scent of the hillside drifted through the open window.
- Bees gathered over the thymy slope all afternoon.
- Her poem described a thymy path leading down to the sea.
- The old garden had a thymy corner beside the wall.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of THYMY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of THYMY
The 5 tiles of THYMY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in THYMY
Common questions about THYMY
- Is THYMY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts THYMY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is THYMY worth?
- THYMY is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does THYMY mean?
- Smelling of or covered with the herb thyme.
- What letters can be added to THYMY?
- No single letter can be added to THYMY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of THYMY:
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