BALLY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BALLY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BALLY?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BALLY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BALLY
No single letter turns BALLY into another word.
How BALLY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BALLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 348,553.
What does BALLY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informalBritish
Used to add emphasis, especially annoyance, in place of a stronger swear word.
Bally softened an oath the way blooming or blessed did, letting a speaker sound cross without using an actual curse word. It was especially common in British speech of the early twentieth century, often in phrases fixed by habit, such as a bally nuisance or the whole bally lot.
How BALLY is used
Dated informal British usage; sounds deliberately old-fashioned or comic today.
- That is a bally nuisance, he grumbled.
- She lost the whole bally lot in the move.
- What a bally mess this kitchen is.
- He called the delay a bally waste of time.
- The bally car would not start again this morning.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BALLY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BALLY
10 longer words begin with BALLY.
Words ending in BALLY
5 words end in BALLY. Useful as a back hook: play BALLY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in BALLY
Common questions about BALLY
- Is BALLY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BALLY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BALLY worth?
- BALLY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BALLY mean?
- Used to add emphasis, especially annoyance, in place of a stronger swear word.
- What letters can be added to BALLY?
- No single letter can be added to BALLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BALLY:
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