CHARRY is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. CHARRY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CHARRY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHARRY is to know. It scores 14 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHARRY
No single letter turns CHARRY into another word.
How CHARRY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CHARRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,104 thousand.
What stands out about CHARRY
- CHARRY 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 CHARRY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Made of, covered with or resembling charcoal.
Charry describes things that look or feel like burnt wood, such as blackened beams after a fire or a dark crust on food left too long over heat. The word is built from char with a familiar ending and is much less common than charred or smoky. Writers pick charry when they want to stress the likeness to charcoal itself rather than the act of burning.
How CHARRY is used
Rare; found in descriptive writing about burnt or blackened material.
- The charry beams still stood in the ruined barn.
- A charry smell hung over the field after the fire.
- He scraped the charry crust off the bread.
- The torch left a charry mark on the wall.
- Her hands were dark from the charry logs.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHARRY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CHARRY
Common questions about CHARRY
- Is CHARRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHARRY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHARRY worth?
- CHARRY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHARRY mean?
- Made of, covered with or resembling charcoal.
- What letters can be added to CHARRY?
- No single letter can be added to CHARRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CHARRY:
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