TUSKY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. TUSKY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TUSKY?
| 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 TUSKY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TUSKY
No single letter turns TUSKY into another word.
How TUSKY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TUSKY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 392,122.
What does TUSKY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Having tusks, or resembling a tusk in shape.
A tusky animal is usually described this way to draw attention to how prominent or striking its tusks are, whether on a wild boar, an elephant, or a walrus hauled out on the ice. Writers reach for tusky when a simple mention of tusks does not capture how the tusks dominate the animal's appearance or seem to define its character. The word can also describe an object shaped like a tusk, curved and tapering to a point. Though not a rare word, tusky is used mainly in descriptive writing about animals rather than in scientific classification.
How TUSKY is used
A descriptive word, used mainly in vivid or literary writing about tusked animals.
- A tusky old boar rooted through the undergrowth.
- The tusky walrus hauled itself onto the ice floe.
- Cave paintings show tusky mammoths roaming the plain.
- The tusky creature in the story guarded the cave entrance.
- Hunters feared the tusky beast's sudden charges.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TUSKY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in TUSKY
Common questions about TUSKY
- Is TUSKY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TUSKY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TUSKY worth?
- TUSKY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TUSKY mean?
- Having tusks, or resembling a tusk in shape.
- What letters can be added to TUSKY?
- No single letter can be added to TUSKY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TUSKY:
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