BARRY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BARRY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BARRY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BARRY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BARRY
No single letter turns BARRY into another word.
How BARRY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BARRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 139,421.
What does BARRY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
heraldry
In heraldry, describing a shield or charge divided into an even number of horizontal bars of alternating colors or metals.
Barry is a heraldic term used when a shield, or part of one, is split into an even number of horizontal stripes, commonly four, six, or eight, each stripe alternating between two tinctures such as gold and blue. Heralds distinguish barry from bars themselves, which describes a small, fixed number of separate horizontal stripes rather than a field completely divided this way. A shield blazoned as barry of six, argent and gules, for example, shows six alternating silver and red horizontal bands covering the whole field. The pattern is one of several standard ways heraldry divides a field, alongside similar terms for vertical and diagonal stripes.
How BARRY is used
Barry is a specialist heraldic term, used almost exclusively in blazons describing coats of arms.
- The shield was blazoned barry of eight, gold and blue.
- Barry patterns divide the field into an even number of horizontal stripes.
- His coat of arms showed a barry field of silver and red.
- The herald explained why the design counted as barry rather than simple bars.
- A barry shield alternates its colors in neat horizontal bands.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BARRY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BARRY
Common questions about BARRY
- Is BARRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BARRY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BARRY worth?
- BARRY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BARRY mean?
- In heraldry, describing a shield or charge divided into an even number of horizontal bars of alternating colors or metals.
- What letters can be added to BARRY?
- No single letter can be added to BARRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BARRY:
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