EMBAY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. EMBAY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EMBAY?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EMBAY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EMBAY
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
embaysChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How EMBAY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in EMBAY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What stands out about EMBAY
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 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 EMBAY mean in Scrabble?
verb
nauticalarchaic
To enclose or shelter a ship within a bay, or to hem something in on several sides as if within a bay.
A ship that is trapped this way has been driven or held inside a bay, often by wind or tide, so that it cannot easily sail back out to open water. The word belongs mainly to older nautical writing describing the dangers sailing ships faced along a rocky coast. By extension, embay can describe anything hemmed in on several sides like a vessel caught in a bay. The term is now rare outside historical or literary descriptions of sailing.
How EMBAY is used
Rare and mainly nautical or literary, describing a vessel trapped or sheltered within a bay.
- The storm threatened to embay the fleet against the cliffs.
- Old charts warned sailors where the current could embay a ship.
- The captain feared the tide would embay his vessel for days.
- Rocks on both sides seemed to embay the small boat.
- Sailors feared the storm would embay them before nightfall.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EMBAY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of EMBAY
The 5 tiles of EMBAY in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with EMBAY
6 longer words begin with EMBAY.
Shorter words from the letters in EMBAY
Common questions about EMBAY
- Is EMBAY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EMBAY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EMBAY worth?
- EMBAY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EMBAY mean?
- To enclose or shelter a ship within a bay, or to hem something in on several sides as if within a bay.
- What letters can be added to EMBAY?
- EMBAY takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of EMBAY:
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