COWRY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. COWRY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COWRY?
| 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 COWRY is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COWRY
No single letter turns COWRY into another word.
How COWRY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in COWRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does COWRY mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A small, glossy, egg-shaped sea shell that once served as a form of currency in parts of Africa and Asia.
A cowry comes from a group of tropical sea snails, and its smooth, rounded shell with a narrow slit on the underside made it easy to string together and count. Long before coined money spread widely, a cowry was traded and counted as currency across large parts of Africa, South Asia and the Pacific. Today a cowry is more often seen in jewelry, in decorative craftwork, or as a playing piece in traditional board games. Collectors also prize a cowry for the range of colors and patterns found on different species.
How COWRY is used
Used mainly in historical, decorative and natural history contexts rather than everyday speech.
- Traders once measured payment in strings of cowry shells.
- She threaded a single cowry onto a leather necklace.
- The museum display included a cowry once used as currency.
- Children in the game tossed a cowry shell to decide the next move.
- Divers occasionally find a live cowry clinging to coral reefs.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COWRY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in COWRY
Common questions about COWRY
- Is COWRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COWRY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COWRY worth?
- COWRY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COWRY mean?
- A small, glossy, egg-shaped sea shell that once served as a form of currency in parts of Africa and Asia.
- What letters can be added to COWRY?
- No single letter can be added to COWRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of COWRY:
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