BERYL is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BERYL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BERYL?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BERYL is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BERYL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
berylsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BERYL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BERYL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does BERYL mean in Scrabble?
noun
A hard, often transparent mineral, typically pale green, blue, or yellow, whose gem varieties include the emerald and the aquamarine.
Beryl forms as six-sided crystals and ranges in color from colorless to green, blue, yellow, and pink, depending on the trace elements present during its formation. Gem cutters prize certain colored varieties of beryl above the plain mineral itself, most famously the deep green emerald and the pale blue-green aquamarine, both cut and polished for fine jewelry. Beyond ornament, beryl serves as the main commercial source of the metal beryllium, extracted for use in aerospace, electronics, and other industries requiring a light, strong material. Geologists find beryl crystals in granite pegmatites, rock formations that allow unusually large mineral crystals to grow over long periods.
How BERYL is used
Beryl is used in mineralogy and jewelry, naming both the plain mineral and its prized colored gem varieties.
- The museum displayed a raw beryl crystal beside its polished cousins.
- Miners extracted beryl from the granite pegmatite for its beryllium content.
- She wore a ring set with a pale blue beryl.
- Emerald is simply a rich green variety of beryl.
- Geologists study how beryl crystals grow so large underground.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BERYL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BERYL
8 longer words begin with BERYL.
Words ending in BERYL
1 words end in BERYL. Useful as a back hook: play BERYL onto a word already on the board.
Words with BERYL inside
1 words contain BERYL in the middle. Words that start with BERYL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BERYL
Common questions about BERYL
- Is BERYL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BERYL, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BERYL worth?
- BERYL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BERYL mean?
- A hard, often transparent mineral, typically pale green, blue, or yellow, whose gem varieties include the emerald and the aquamarine.
- What letters can be added to BERYL?
- BERYL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BERYL:
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