CHANTRY is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. CHANTRY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CHANTRY?
| 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: 51 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHANTRY is to know. It scores 15 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHANTRY
No single letter turns CHANTRY into another word.
How CHANTRY scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in CHANTRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,029 thousand.
What stands out about CHANTRY
- CHANTRY gets by on a single vowel across 7 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CHANTRY mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A fund set up to pay a priest to sing masses for a named person, or the small chapel or altar where this was done.
Wealthy medieval families paid for a chantry so that prayers would continue for their souls long after their death. Many English churches still contain a carved chantry, though the endowments were abolished in the sixteenth century.
How CHANTRY is used
A chantry may mean the endowment itself or the physical chapel built to house it.
- The merchant left money to build a chantry beside the choir.
- A stone screen surrounds the bishop's chantry.
- Visitors admire the carved ceiling of the old chantry.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHANTRY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CHANTRY
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Common questions about CHANTRY
- Is CHANTRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHANTRY, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHANTRY worth?
- CHANTRY is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHANTRY mean?
- A fund set up to pay a priest to sing masses for a named person, or the small chapel or altar where this was done.
- What letters can be added to CHANTRY?
- No single letter can be added to CHANTRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of CHANTRY:
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