What SHY Means
- adjective: lacking self-confidence“stood in the doorway diffident and abashed”
- adjective: short“eleven is one shy of a dozen”
- verb: start suddenly, as from fright
- verb: throw quickly
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SHY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 H4 Y4.
Words Made From The Letters In SHY
1 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
2 letter words (1)
Longer Words Containing SHY
SHY appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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