DATARY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. DATARY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DATARY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DATARY is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DATARY
No single letter turns DATARY into another word.
How DATARY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in DATARY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What does DATARY mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A Roman Catholic official who once dated and registered papal grants and petitions.
The datary headed an office of the papal court, called the Dataria, which handled certain favours and appointments. The title comes from the Latin datum, the word that stood before the date on a document. The office was reorganised in the twentieth century and no longer carries the old name.
How DATARY is used
Found in church history; also spelled dataria for the office.
- The datary checked the petition before it reached the pope.
- An old chronicle names him as datary under two popes.
- As datary he controlled the dating of every grant.
- The datary signed the document on the second day of May.
- Historians still study the powers of the datary.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DATARY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DATARY
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Common questions about DATARY
- Is DATARY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DATARY, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DATARY worth?
- DATARY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DATARY mean?
- A Roman Catholic official who once dated and registered papal grants and petitions.
- What letters can be added to DATARY?
- No single letter can be added to DATARY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of DATARY:
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