BIALY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BIALY 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 BIALY?
| 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 BIALY 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 BIALY
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
bialysChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BIALY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BIALY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does BIALY mean in Scrabble?
noun
North American
A round, flat bread roll with chopped onion pressed into a shallow dip at its center, baked without the central hole of a bagel.
The bialy takes its name from the Polish city of Bialystok, where Jewish bakers pressed onion or poppy seed into a dimple on top of the dough instead of boiling it the way bagel makers do. Immigrant bakeries carried the bialy to New York in the early twentieth century, and it is still most familiar there as a savory partner to cream cheese or smoked fish. Because a bialy is never boiled before baking, its crust stays thinner and its crumb softer than a bagel's.
How BIALY is used
Heard mainly in bakery and deli talk, especially in cities with a strong Jewish-American baking tradition.
- The bakery sells out of onion bialys by nine most mornings.
- She split a bialy and spread it with cream cheese.
- Unlike a bagel, a bialy has a dimple instead of a hole.
- He ordered a bialy with smoked salmon for breakfast.
- The recipe calls for pressing chopped onion into the center of each bialy before baking.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BIALY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BIALY
1 longer words begin with BIALY.
Shorter words from the letters in BIALY
Common questions about BIALY
- Is BIALY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BIALY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BIALY worth?
- BIALY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BIALY mean?
- A round, flat bread roll with chopped onion pressed into a shallow dip at its center, baked without the central hole of a bagel.
- What letters can be added to BIALY?
- BIALY takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BIALY:
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