AREFY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. AREFY 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept AREFY?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AREFY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AREFY
Front hooks — 1
rarefyBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How AREFY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AREFY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about AREFY
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does AREFY mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicrare
To dry something up thoroughly, making it withered or parched.
Arefy traces back to a Latin root meaning to make dry, and old herbals used it for plants left to arefy in the sun before storage. The word never became common in everyday English and is now met only in historical or technical botanical writing.
How AREFY is used
Extremely rare; appears mainly in old herbal and botanical texts.
- The herbalist let the roots arefy for a fortnight.
- Heat from the kiln would arefy the clay bricks fast.
- Old recipes tell the reader to arefy the leaves first.
- The wind alone can arefy thin bark within days.
- They laid the petals out to arefy before grinding them.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AREFY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of AREFY
The 5 tiles of AREFY in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with AREFY
1 longer words begin with AREFY.
Words ending in AREFY
1 words end in AREFY. Useful as a back hook: play AREFY onto a word already on the board.
Words with AREFY inside
1 words contain AREFY in the middle. Words that start with AREFY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in AREFY
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Common questions about AREFY
- Is AREFY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and AREFY is not in it.
- How many points is AREFY worth?
- AREFY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AREFY mean?
- To dry something up thoroughly, making it withered or parched.
- What letters can be added to AREFY?
- AREFY takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AREFY:
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