CLY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 8 points
It depends on the list you play by. CLY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 8 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CLY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CLY is to know. It scores 8 from 3 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 2.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CLY
No single letter turns CLY into another word.
How CLY scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in CLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,106.
What does CLY mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicslang
To steal or seize something, especially by stealth.
Cly turns up in old thieves' cant and criminal slang, where it described the quick, secretive act of taking something that belonged to someone else. Its meaning sits close in spirit to modern words like nick or pinch.
How CLY is used
Archaic slang, found chiefly in old glossaries of thieves' language and older literature.
- The pickpocket learned to cly a purse without anyone noticing.
- Old cant dictionaries define cly as to steal or seize.
- He was caught trying to cly a loaf from the market stall.
- In the gang's private slang, to cly meant to grab whatever was loose.
- The judge read out how the boy had tried to cly a watch.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CLY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CLY
12 longer words begin with CLY.
Words ending in CLY
20 words end in CLY. Useful as a back hook: play CLY onto a word already on the board.
Words with CLY inside
5 words contain CLY in the middle. Words that start with CLY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Common questions about CLY
- Is CLY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CLY is not in it.
- How many points is CLY worth?
- CLY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CLY mean?
- To steal or seize something, especially by stealth.
- What letters can be added to CLY?
- No single letter can be added to CLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of CLY:
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