TURNIPY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. TURNIPY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TURNIPY?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TURNIPY is to know. It scores 12 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TURNIPY
No single letter turns TURNIPY into another word.
How TURNIPY scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in TURNIPY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 514,646.
What does TURNIPY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Resembling a turnip in look, taste or smell.
Cooks reach for turnipy when a vegetable dish carries that earthy, faintly bitter note of the root. It is a casual descriptive coinage, not a technical term.
How TURNIPY is used
Turnipy is used informally for flavours, smells or round pale shapes.
- The soup had a faintly turnipy aftertaste that nobody could place.
- He disliked the turnipy smell drifting from the cellar.
- The cheap stew was heavy, grey and turnipy.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TURNIPY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in TURNIPY
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Common questions about TURNIPY
- Is TURNIPY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TURNIPY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TURNIPY worth?
- TURNIPY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TURNIPY mean?
- Resembling a turnip in look, taste or smell.
- What letters can be added to TURNIPY?
- No single letter can be added to TURNIPY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of TURNIPY:
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