WANTY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. WANTY 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept WANTY?
| 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 WANTY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WANTY
No single letter turns WANTY into another word.
How WANTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WANTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does WANTY mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicdialect
A leather strap used to bind a load onto a packhorse.
Wanty names a piece of farm harness, a girth or short rope that held goods steady on a horse's back before wheeled transport took over that work. It belongs to a set of old harness names that survived in dialect glossaries long after the equipment itself went out of everyday use.
How WANTY is used
Rare; met in old farming and harness glossaries.
- The carrier tightened the wanty before the horse set off.
- A worn wanty could let the whole load slip sideways.
- The museum displayed a wanty beside other old harness pieces.
- Farmers once kept a spare wanty in the stable for emergencies.
- The glossary lists wanty among names for packhorse straps.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WANTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WANTY
The 5 tiles of WANTY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in WANTY
Common questions about WANTY
- Is WANTY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and WANTY is not in it.
- How many points is WANTY worth?
- WANTY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WANTY mean?
- A leather strap used to bind a load onto a packhorse.
- What letters can be added to WANTY?
- No single letter can be added to WANTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WANTY:
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