CURNY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. CURNY 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CURNY?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CURNY 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 CURNY
No single letter turns CURNY into another word.
How CURNY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CURNY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does CURNY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialectScots
Made up of small, gritty grains; granular.
Curny is a Scots dialect adjective built on curn, a word for a small grain or handful, and is used of coarse meal, sand or snow that feels grainy rather than smooth. The variant spelling curney carries the same sense.
How CURNY is used
Regional Scots usage; met mainly in dialect speech and older Scottish writing.
- The oatmeal felt curny between her fingers.
- A curny frost covered the path that morning.
- He complained that the flour was too curny for baking.
- The beach sand there is dry and curny.
- Snow had turned curny after a night of freezing and thawing.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CURNY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CURNY
Common questions about CURNY
- Is CURNY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CURNY is not in it.
- How many points is CURNY worth?
- CURNY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CURNY mean?
- Made up of small, gritty grains; granular.
- What letters can be added to CURNY?
- No single letter can be added to CURNY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CURNY:
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