COLLY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. COLLY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COLLY?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COLLY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COLLY
No single letter turns COLLY into another word.
How COLLY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in COLLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 392,122.
What does COLLY mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialect
Black grime or soot, especially from coal.
Colly is a dialect word for the black smudge that coal leaves behind on hands, clothes or walls, and the same word could once also be used as a verb meaning to blacken something with soot. It shares its root with collier, an old word for a coal miner or coal ship, and with the colour sense buried in coal-black. The word survives mainly in older regional English rather than in everyday modern speech.
How COLLY is used
Dialect; found more in older regional English than in current standard usage.
- His hands were covered in colly after a day at the coal face.
- The word colly shares a root with collier, an old word for a coal miner.
- Colly on the walls showed the fireplace had been used for years.
- She wiped the colly from the child's cheek before school.
- Dialect writers used colly for any dark soot, not only coal dust.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COLLY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COLLY
5 longer words begin with COLLY.
Shorter words from the letters in COLLY
Common questions about COLLY
- Is COLLY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COLLY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COLLY worth?
- COLLY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COLLY mean?
- Black grime or soot, especially from coal.
- What letters can be added to COLLY?
- No single letter can be added to COLLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of COLLY:
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