SHELLY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. SHELLY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SHELLY?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHELLY is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHELLY
No single letter turns SHELLY into another word.
How SHELLY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SHELLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,035 thousand.
What stands out about SHELLY
- SHELLY gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SHELLY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Full of shells, covered with shells, or resembling a shell.
A shelly beach is one where the sand is mixed with broken and whole shells, and a shelly rock or limestone contains many fossil shells. The word is formed from shell and describes either abundance or likeness. It turns up in writing about coasts, soils and geology.
How SHELLY is used
Used for beaches, sand, gravel and rock containing shells.
- We walked along a shelly shore at low tide.
- The path was made of crushed shelly gravel.
- The quarry exposed a shelly layer of limestone.
- Gulls searched the shelly sand for anything edible.
- The soil in that field is light and shelly.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHELLY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SHELLY
2 longer words begin with SHELLY.
Shorter words from the letters in SHELLY
Common questions about SHELLY
- Is SHELLY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHELLY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHELLY worth?
- SHELLY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHELLY mean?
- Full of shells, covered with shells, or resembling a shell.
- What letters can be added to SHELLY?
- No single letter can be added to SHELLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SHELLY:
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