AMBRY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. AMBRY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AMBRY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AMBRY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AMBRY
No single letter turns AMBRY into another word.
How AMBRY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AMBRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does AMBRY mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalBritish
A small recessed cupboard or niche, especially one set into a church wall to hold sacred vessels or vestments.
An ambry is most often found built into the wall near the altar of an older church, where it was used to store the vessels and cloths needed for services. The same word once also named an ordinary household storeroom or cupboard for keeping food, a sense that lingered in some regional English long after pantry became the general term. Today ambry survives mainly in church architecture and in descriptions of medieval and later ecclesiastical buildings.
How AMBRY is used
Mostly historical and architectural, describing a fixture in older churches rather than in modern domestic use.
- The guide pointed out the stone ambry beside the altar.
- Medieval records list the silver kept in the church ambry.
- The restored chapel still has its original ambry in the wall.
- A small ambry held the holy oils used in the ceremony.
- The old farmhouse kitchen still had a shallow ambry for bread.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AMBRY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of AMBRY
The 5 tiles of AMBRY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in AMBRY
Common questions about AMBRY
- Is AMBRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AMBRY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AMBRY worth?
- AMBRY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AMBRY mean?
- A small recessed cupboard or niche, especially one set into a church wall to hold sacred vessels or vestments.
- What letters can be added to AMBRY?
- No single letter can be added to AMBRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AMBRY:
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