shantytown
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 19
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 10
Definition of shantytown
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.
“The forest gave way to shantytowns that stitched themselves into waves of blue-tented internally displaced camps and then stone dwellings hundreds of years old.”
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Etymology
From shanty + town.
Words you can make from shantytown
200+ playable · top: ANYHOW (15 pts)
Best play anyhow 15 points8-letter words
1 word7-letter words
3 words6-letter words
16 words5-letter words
48 words- SHOWY 14 pts
- WASHY 14 pts
- HASTY 11 pts
- HOTTY 11 pts
- HOYAS 11 pts
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- NANOS 5 pts
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4-letter words
100 words- WHYS 13 pts
- AHOY 10 pts
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3-letter words
31 words- HAW 9 pts
- HAY 9 pts
- HOW 9 pts
- HOY 9 pts
- AHS 6 pts
- ANY 6 pts
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- HON 6 pts
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- NOW 6 pts
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- OWN 6 pts
- ANT 3 pts
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- ATT 3 pts
- NAN 3 pts
- NOS 3 pts
- NOT 3 pts
- OAT 3 pts
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