What WHIMSEY Means
- noun: an odd or fanciful or capricious idea“the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories”
- noun: the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment“I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
WHIMSEY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 18 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as W4 H4 I1 M3 S1 E1 Y4.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 68 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In WHIMSEY
79 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.
6 letter words (1)
5 letter words (5)
4 letter words (27)
EISHEMYSHEMSHEWSHEYSHIESHIMSHYESMESHMEWSMISESEMISHEWSHIMSMEWSWEYSWIMWEMSWEYSWHEYWHIMWHYSWISEWISHWYESYEWSYWIS
3 letter words (32)
2 letter words (14)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.