Is HYENA a word?
HYENA is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words With Friends, has 5 letters, and can be rearranged into 0 other words, plus 23 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, HYENA is a valid word.
What does hyena mean?
noun: doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
HYENA: word details
- Pronunciation: heye-EE-nuh (approx., 3 syllables)
- Length: 5 letters, a medium-length word. It is one of 12,578 5-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 11 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 10 points on the tiles.
- Wordle: five letters, so HYENA works as a Wordle guess or answer.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Shorter words inside hyena
Words you can make from the letters of hyena.
Solve a whole rack, not just HYENA
HYENA is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does HYENA mean?
HYENA is a noun. It means: doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
Is HYENA a valid word?
Yes, HYENA is a valid word. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.