CRAY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. CRAY 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 9 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CRAY?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CRAY is to know. It scores 9 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CRAY
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CRAY scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CRAY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 18,154.
What does CRAY mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalAustralian
A crayfish, freshwater or marine.
Cray is the everyday Australian and New Zealand short form of crayfish, used for the freshwater animal inland and, on the coast, for the rock lobster sold under the same name. The clipping is old enough that speakers rarely think of it as short for anything.
How CRAY is used
Countable: a cray, a kilo of crays. Cray pot and cray boat are the standard compounds.
- They pulled the pots at dawn and had four crays by seven.
- A cray that size is worth more than the fuel to get it.
- The cray season opens later every year and nobody is happy about it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CRAY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CRAY
The 4 tiles of CRAY in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CRAY
16 longer words begin with CRAY.
Words ending in CRAY
1 words end in CRAY. Useful as a back hook: play CRAY onto a word already on the board.
Words with CRAY inside
3 words contain CRAY in the middle. Words that start with CRAY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CRAY
Common questions about CRAY
- Is CRAY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CRAY is not in it.
- How many points is CRAY worth?
- CRAY is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CRAY mean?
- A crayfish, freshwater or marine.
- What letters can be added to CRAY?
- CRAY takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CRAY:
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