FAERY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. FAERY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FAERY?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FAERY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FAERY
No single letter turns FAERY into another word.
How FAERY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FAERY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about FAERY
- The same 5 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 FAERY mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterary
An old and poetic spelling used for fairyland, the enchanted realm inhabited by fairies, or for a fairy itself.
Faery leans harder into the mysterious, otherworldly side of fairy lore than the plainer spelling fairy, and poets have long favoured it for describing not just individual fairies but the whole enchanted country they are imagined to inhabit. Edmund Spenser's long poem The Faerie Queene helped fix this older spelling in literary memory, using the term to conjure a shimmering, dreamlike realm rather than a single small creature. Writers reaching for faery today are usually aiming for an antique, storybook atmosphere, distinguishing their prose from more casual references to fairies in children's tales. The word can describe the realm itself, a single inhabitant of it, or simply anything touched by that same otherworldly enchantment.
How FAERY is used
Archaic and literary, chosen deliberately for an antique or mysterious tone rather than used in ordinary speech.
- The knight wandered deep into the land of faery.
- Old ballads describe music drifting from faery.
- She wrote of a faery glimpsed at the edge of the wood.
- The poem's faery realm glittered with impossible colours.
- He borrowed the spelling faery to give the tale an older feel.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FAERY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of FAERY
The 5 tiles of FAERY in a different order — 3 found.
Shorter words from the letters in FAERY
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Common questions about FAERY
- Is FAERY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FAERY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FAERY worth?
- FAERY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FAERY mean?
- An old and poetic spelling used for fairyland, the enchanted realm inhabited by fairies, or for a fairy itself.
- What letters can be added to FAERY?
- No single letter can be added to FAERY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FAERY:
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