COALY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. COALY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COALY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COALY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COALY
No single letter turns COALY into another word.
How COALY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in COALY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does COALY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Resembling coal, or containing, producing, or covered with coal.
Geologists describe a rock layer as coaly when it is rich in carbon and shares coal's dark, crumbly texture, even if it has not fully turned into coal itself. Older travel and mining writing also used coaly for a place thick with coal dust or soot, such as a coaly mining town where everything looked grimy black. The word is built simply from coal plus the adjective ending -y, following the same pattern as sandy from sand or rocky from rock.
How COALY is used
Mostly a specialist word in geology and older descriptions of mining regions, rare in everyday speech.
- The survey noted a coaly seam running beneath the shale.
- Soot left every wall in the coaly little town grey.
- Miners crushed the coaly rock to test its carbon content.
- The riverbank had a coaly smell after the barge unloaded.
- A coaly residue coated the tools left near the furnace.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COALY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COALY
2 longer words begin with COALY.
Words ending in COALY
1 words end in COALY. Useful as a back hook: play COALY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in COALY
Common questions about COALY
- Is COALY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COALY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COALY worth?
- COALY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COALY mean?
- Resembling coal, or containing, producing, or covered with coal.
- What letters can be added to COALY?
- No single letter can be added to COALY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of COALY:
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