ADAYS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. ADAYS is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 9 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ADAYS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ADAYS is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ADAYS
No single letter turns ADAYS into another word.
How ADAYS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ADAYS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does ADAYS mean in Scrabble?
adverb
archaicpoetic
During the day, or daily, as opposed to at night.
Adays is an old adverb built from the phrase a day, the same pattern that produced the ending of nowadays and always. Used alone, it meant simply by day or daily, though English mostly kept the piece welded onto other words rather than standing free. Writers such as Spenser used adays on its own, which is how the word survives in dictionaries today. Outside quotation from older poetry, it is essentially obsolete as an independent word.
How ADAYS is used
Archaic; now met chiefly as the buried ending of nowadays rather than as a word on its own.
- Spenser used adays where a modern poet would simply write daily.
- The old text reads he laboured adays, meaning he worked by day.
- Adays survives mostly as the second half of nowadays.
- An editor glossed adays as an archaic form of daily.
- Few writers reach for adays outside quotation from older verse.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ADAYS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in ADAYS
5 words end in ADAYS. Useful as a back hook: play ADAYS onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in ADAYS
Common questions about ADAYS
- Is ADAYS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ADAYS is not in it.
- How many points is ADAYS worth?
- ADAYS is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ADAYS mean?
- During the day, or daily, as opposed to at night.
- What letters can be added to ADAYS?
- No single letter can be added to ADAYS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ADAYS:
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