FERIAL is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. FERIAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FERIAL?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FERIAL is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FERIAL
No single letter turns FERIAL into another word.
How FERIAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in FERIAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 25,550.
What does FERIAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Of a day in the church calendar, ordinary and not given over to a feast or fast.
In liturgical use a ferial day is a plain weekday on which no saint or festival is celebrated. The term comes from the Latin word for a free day or holiday, an odd change of sense since the days it now describes are the least festive. Ferial readings and ferial prayers follow the regular cycle.
How FERIAL is used
Technical, used in church liturgy.
- The priest read the ferial office that morning.
- On a ferial day the vestments are plain.
- The missal gives a ferial reading for Tuesday.
- Most days of the year are ferial rather than feast days.
- A ferial Mass is shorter than a festal one.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FERIAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FERIAL
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Common questions about FERIAL
- Is FERIAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FERIAL, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FERIAL worth?
- FERIAL is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FERIAL mean?
- Of a day in the church calendar, ordinary and not given over to a feast or fast.
- What letters can be added to FERIAL?
- No single letter can be added to FERIAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of FERIAL:
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