AWMRY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. AWMRY 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 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept AWMRY?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AWMRY is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AWMRY
No single letter turns AWMRY into another word.
How AWMRY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AWMRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does AWMRY mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotsarchaic
A cupboard or recess used to store sacred vessels and other items, especially in a church.
An awmry is the Scots spelling of the word more often seen as aumbry or ambry, a small locked cupboard set into a wall near the altar to hold the chalice, patens and other sacred vessels between services. The same word could also describe an ordinary household cupboard or pantry in older Scots and northern English usage. Spelling varied widely from parish to parish, giving forms such as ambry, almery, ambery and awmrie alongside awmry.
How AWMRY is used
A dialectal and archaic spelling, mainly found in older Scots texts and in descriptions of church furnishings.
- The chalice was locked away in the awmry after evensong.
- An old awmry still stood in the vestry wall of the ruined kirk.
- She kept the household linen in a plain wooden awmry.
- The parish records describe an awmry built into the north wall.
- Restorers found traces of paint on the inside of the awmry door.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AWMRY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in AWMRY
Common questions about AWMRY
- Is AWMRY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and AWMRY is not in it.
- How many points is AWMRY worth?
- AWMRY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AWMRY mean?
- A cupboard or recess used to store sacred vessels and other items, especially in a church.
- What letters can be added to AWMRY?
- No single letter can be added to AWMRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AWMRY:
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