YENTA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. YENTA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept YENTA?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful YENTA is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for YENTA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
yentasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How YENTA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in YENTA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What does YENTA mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
An informal word, borrowed from Yiddish, for a woman who gossips, meddles in other people's affairs or acts as a matchmaker.
English speakers, especially in American Jewish communities, use yenta to describe someone, usually a woman, who cannot resist gossiping about neighbours or interfering in other people's personal business. The word carries a second, related sense of a matchmaker, someone who takes an active interest in arranging marriages or relationships between other people, a role closely tied to traditional Jewish community life. Both senses share the same underlying image of a person deeply, sometimes intrusively, invested in everyone else's affairs rather than minding her own. The word entered wider American English partly through Yiddish-influenced comedy and fiction, where a yenta character typically supplies gossip, opinions and unsolicited advice in equal measure.
How YENTA is used
Informal, chiefly American English, used for a gossiping or meddling woman, or sometimes for a matchmaker, mainly in casual speech.
- The neighbours dismissed her as an incurable yenta.
- He complained that his aunt acted like a yenta at every family gathering.
- The old yenta down the street always knew everyone's business.
- She played the yenta, trying to set up the two coworkers.
- Nobody could keep a secret once the yenta heard about it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YENTA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with YENTA
1 longer words begin with YENTA.
Shorter words from the letters in YENTA
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Common questions about YENTA
- Is YENTA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts YENTA, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is YENTA worth?
- YENTA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YENTA mean?
- An informal word, borrowed from Yiddish, for a woman who gossips, meddles in other people's affairs or acts as a matchmaker.
- What letters can be added to YENTA?
- YENTA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of YENTA:
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