BORTY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BORTY 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 BORTY?
| 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 BORTY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BORTY
No single letter turns BORTY into another word.
How BORTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BORTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What stands out about BORTY
- The letters of BORTY run in alphabetical order from first to last.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BORTY mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A low-quality, granular form of diamond, useful only when crushed into powder, chiefly for industrial cutting and grinding.
Borty, more often spelled bort, forms as a grey or brown crust of tightly packed diamond crystals rather than the clear single crystal prized for jewellery, so it has no value at all as a gemstone. Manufacturers crush borty into an abrasive powder used to cut, grind, and polish hard materials such as other diamonds, glass, and stone, work that depends only on diamond's hardness and not on its clarity or colour. The related use of borty as an adjective describes anything made from or relating to this industrial diamond dust.
How BORTY is used
A specialist term from mining and industrial abrasives rather than everyday speech.
- The mine sorted gem-quality stones from the borty left behind.
- Workers crushed the borty into fine abrasive powder.
- A borty coating on the wheel let it cut through hardened steel.
- Industrial buyers paid little for borty compared with cut diamonds.
- The report listed tons of borty extracted alongside the gem stock.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BORTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BORTY
Common questions about BORTY
- Is BORTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BORTY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BORTY worth?
- BORTY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BORTY mean?
- A low-quality, granular form of diamond, useful only when crushed into powder, chiefly for industrial cutting and grinding.
- What letters can be added to BORTY?
- No single letter can be added to BORTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BORTY:
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