UNPAY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. UNPAY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept UNPAY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UNPAY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UNPAY
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
unpaysChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How UNPAY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in UNPAY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does UNPAY mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To undo or annul a payment, as if taking it back.
Unpay joins the negating prefix un- to pay in the same way as undo joins un- to do, and old legal and financial writing used it for cancelling a sum once handed over. Modern English keeps the idea but not the word, preferring refund or reverse a payment.
How UNPAY is used
Archaic; a payment is refunded or reversed today, rarely described as unpaid in this active sense.
- To unpay a debt struck the clerk as an odd way to describe a refund.
- The old contract spoke of a right to unpay any sum wrongly charged.
- No modern banker would say unpay when reverse the transaction is meant.
- The judge asked whether the firm could unpay what had already changed hands.
- Unpay survives only in a scattering of old legal phrasing.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UNPAY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with UNPAY
3 longer words begin with UNPAY.
Shorter words from the letters in UNPAY
Common questions about UNPAY
- Is UNPAY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and UNPAY is not in it.
- How many points is UNPAY worth?
- UNPAY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UNPAY mean?
- To undo or annul a payment, as if taking it back.
- What letters can be added to UNPAY?
- UNPAY takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of UNPAY:
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