CHERTY is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. CHERTY 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 CHERTY?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHERTY is to know. It scores 14 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHERTY
No single letter turns CHERTY into another word.
How CHERTY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CHERTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 344,923.
What stands out about CHERTY
- CHERTY 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 CHERTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Containing chert, or having the hard, flinty character of that rock.
Geologists and farmers use cherty to describe soil, limestone or gravel that is full of nodules of chert, a dense, fine-grained silica rock that breaks with sharp edges. A cherty field is hard on ploughs and tyres, and cherty layers in a cliff often stand out because they weather more slowly than the softer rock around them.
How CHERTY is used
Mostly found in geology, soil description and quarrying.
- The hillside soil was thin and cherty.
- A cherty band ran through the pale limestone cliff.
- Their ploughs broke twice on the cherty ground.
- The creek bed was littered with cherty pebbles.
- It is a cherty outcrop that resists the rain.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHERTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CHERTY
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Common questions about CHERTY
- Is CHERTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHERTY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHERTY worth?
- CHERTY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHERTY mean?
- Containing chert, or having the hard, flinty character of that rock.
- What letters can be added to CHERTY?
- No single letter can be added to CHERTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CHERTY:
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