DARI is valid in Collins, not in North America — 5 points
It depends on the list you play by. DARI 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 5 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept DARI?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DARI is to know. It scores 5 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DARI
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DARI scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in DARI, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,017.
What stands out about DARI
- The same 4 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does DARI mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A variety of sorghum grown as a cereal grain, known in English as Indian millet.
Dari is cultivated for its grain, which is ground into flour or fed to livestock. The same spelling with a capital letter also names an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan, an unrelated word describing a language rather than a plant.
How DARI is used
Used in agricultural and botanical writing about grain crops.
- Farmers harvested the dari before the rains began.
- The mill ground the dari into a coarse flour.
- Cattle were fed on stalks left over from the dari crop.
- This variety of dari grows well in dry soil.
- Markets sold sacks of dari alongside wheat and rice.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DARI and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DARI
The 4 tiles of DARI in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with DARI
10 longer words begin with DARI.
Words ending in DARI
5 words end in DARI. Useful as a back hook: play DARI onto a word already on the board.
Words with DARI inside
Showing 24 of 90 words that contain DARI somewhere in the middle. Words that start with DARI are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DARI
Common questions about DARI
- Is DARI valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and DARI is not in it.
- How many points is DARI worth?
- DARI is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DARI mean?
- A variety of sorghum grown as a cereal grain, known in English as Indian millet.
- What letters can be added to DARI?
- DARI takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of DARI:
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