AERIFY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. AERIFY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AERIFY?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AERIFY is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AERIFY
No single letter turns AERIFY into another word.
How AERIFY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in AERIFY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 51,100.
What does AERIFY mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To make a soil or lawn more open to air by punching small holes or pulling out plugs of earth.
Groundskeepers aerify turf so that air, water and fertilizer can reach the roots instead of running off compacted ground. A heavy-traffic golf course or football pitch is a typical candidate, and the job is usually done with a hollow-tined machine. Older writing also uses aerify for turning something into a gas or mixing air into a liquid.
How AERIFY is used
Mostly a gardening and turf-care word; the commoner synonym is aerate.
- We aerify the lawn every autumn to keep the grass healthy.
- The crew will aerify the fairways before the tournament.
- You should aerify compacted soil before sowing new seed.
- It is hard to aerify clay when the ground is dry.
- The old chemist tried to aerify the liquid by shaking it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AERIFY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AERIFY
1 longer words begin with AERIFY.
Shorter words from the letters in AERIFY
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Common questions about AERIFY
- Is AERIFY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AERIFY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AERIFY worth?
- AERIFY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AERIFY mean?
- To make a soil or lawn more open to air by punching small holes or pulling out plugs of earth.
- What letters can be added to AERIFY?
- No single letter can be added to AERIFY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of AERIFY:
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