TWENTY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. TWENTY 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 TWENTY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TWENTY is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TWENTY
No single letter turns TWENTY into another word.
How TWENTY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in TWENTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 2 | 6 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 275,938.
What stands out about TWENTY
- TWENTY 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 TWENTY mean in Scrabble?
noun
The number that is two times ten, written 20; a group of that many people or things.
Twenty is the number reached after nineteen, and in older English a group of twenty was called a score. Because of its roundness it appears in many everyday settings, from a banknote worth twenty dollars to the twenty questions of a classic guessing game. In the plural, the twenties name both the years from twenty to twenty-nine in a life and a decade of a century.
How TWENTY is used
An everyday number word; in American speech a twenty can also mean a twenty-dollar bill.
- The bus leaves in twenty minutes.
- He pulled a crisp twenty from his wallet.
- Twenty students signed up for the trip.
- She was in her early twenty-something years when she moved abroad.
- Count to twenty before you open your eyes.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TWENTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TWENTY
4 longer words begin with TWENTY.
Shorter words from the letters in TWENTY
Common questions about TWENTY
- Is TWENTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TWENTY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TWENTY worth?
- TWENTY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TWENTY mean?
- The number that is two times ten, written 20; a group of that many people or things.
- What letters can be added to TWENTY?
- No single letter can be added to TWENTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of TWENTY:
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