DRY is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. DRY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DRY?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DRY is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DRY
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DRY scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in DRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,369.
What does DRY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Free from moisture.
Dry has more figurative senses than almost any other short adjective: a dry wine, a dry joke, a dry county, a dry cough. What links them is the absence of something expected, and in every case the missing thing is different.
How DRY is used
Before and after the noun. The comparative is drier.
- The washing was dry by four and damp again by six.
- A dry wine has no sugar left in it.
- His humour is dry to the point of invisibility.
- The county stayed dry until 1966.
- Keep it dry and it will last a century.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DRY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DRY
Showing 24 of 48 words that begin with DRY.
Words ending in DRY
Showing 24 of 46 words that end in DRY. Useful as a back hook: play DRY onto a word already on the board.
Words with DRY inside
Showing 24 of 30 words that contain DRY somewhere in the middle. Words that start with DRY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Common questions about DRY
- Is DRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DRY, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DRY worth?
- DRY is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DRY mean?
- Free from moisture.
- What letters can be added to DRY?
- DRY takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of DRY:
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