BROLLY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. BROLLY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BROLLY?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BROLLY is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BROLLY
No single letter turns BROLLY into another word.
How BROLLY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BROLLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,035 thousand.
What stands out about BROLLY
- BROLLY gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BROLLY mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalBritish
An umbrella, in everyday British speech.
Brolly is a shortened, affectionate form of the longer word, built by trimming the front and adding a cosy ending, a habit typical of British informal English. Britons reach for it when chatting about showers, a bus seat where one was left behind, or a loan to a friend. In parachuting slang the same word can refer to the canopy, and the clipped form is far more likely in speech than in formal writing.
How BROLLY is used
Informal and chiefly British; use umbrella in formal writing.
- Take a brolly, it looks like rain.
- He left his brolly on the train again.
- A wind like that will turn any brolly inside out.
- She shared her brolly with a stranger at the bus stop.
- The doorman held a large black brolly over the guests.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BROLLY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BROLLY
Common questions about BROLLY
- Is BROLLY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BROLLY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BROLLY worth?
- BROLLY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BROLLY mean?
- An umbrella, in everyday British speech.
- What letters can be added to BROLLY?
- No single letter can be added to BROLLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BROLLY:
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