TWANKY is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. TWANKY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TWANKY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TWANKY is to know. It scores 16 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TWANKY
No single letter turns TWANKY into another word.
How TWANKY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in TWANKY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 919,794.
What stands out about TWANKY
- TWANKY 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 TWANKY mean in Scrabble?
noun
British
A kind of green tea from China, or the washerwoman character in the pantomime of Aladdin.
Pantomime audiences in Britain know Widow twanky as a comic part played by a man in a dress. The tea sense is older and rare, and the two uses share only the name.
How TWANKY is used
The tea sense is dated; the pantomime sense is familiar in Britain.
- She ordered a pot of twanky at the old tea shop.
- The actor played Widow twanky with great comic energy.
- A crate of twanky arrived on the clipper.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TWANKY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in TWANKY
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Common questions about TWANKY
- Is TWANKY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TWANKY, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TWANKY worth?
- TWANKY is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TWANKY mean?
- A kind of green tea from China, or the washerwoman character in the pantomime of Aladdin.
- What letters can be added to TWANKY?
- No single letter can be added to TWANKY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of TWANKY:
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