TUNNY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. TUNNY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TUNNY?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TUNNY is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TUNNY
No single letter turns TUNNY into another word.
How TUNNY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TUNNY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 104,566.
What does TUNNY mean in Scrabble?
noun
British
A large oceanic food fish of the mackerel family, especially the bluefin; the standard British term for what North American English usually calls tuna.
British writers and fishermen traditionally called this large, fast-swimming fish tunny long before tuna, borrowed from American Spanish, became the dominant word across most of the English-speaking world. A single tunny can weigh several hundred pounds, and Mediterranean and Atlantic fishing fleets have targeted the fish commercially for centuries, both fresh and later canned. Older British cookbooks and menus list tunny where a modern reader would expect to see tuna, and the word still appears occasionally in British fishing and culinary writing today. Zoologists sometimes prefer tunny in technical writing to specify particular large species within the genus, even as tuna dominates everyday conversation nearly everywhere.
How TUNNY is used
Chiefly British and somewhat old-fashioned, largely replaced in everyday use by tuna but still met in fishing and culinary writing.
- The trawler brought in a huge tunny weighing over three hundred pounds.
- Older cookbooks list tunny where modern ones say tuna.
- Fishermen off the coast still occasionally land a tunny.
- The menu offered grilled tunny as the evening special.
- Marine biologists tracked the migration patterns of the tunny.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TUNNY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in TUNNY
Common questions about TUNNY
- Is TUNNY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TUNNY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TUNNY worth?
- TUNNY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TUNNY mean?
- A large oceanic food fish of the mackerel family, especially the bluefin; the standard British term for what North American English usually calls tuna.
- What letters can be added to TUNNY?
- No single letter can be added to TUNNY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TUNNY:
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