FERITY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. FERITY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FERITY?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FERITY is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FERITY
No single letter turns FERITY into another word.
How FERITY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in FERITY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 76,649.
What does FERITY mean in Scrabble?
noun
rareliterary
The state of being wild, savage or untamed.
Ferity is a learned word built on the Latin root for a wild beast, and it turns up chiefly in older prose where a writer wants to stress raw, unrestrained wildness. It is related to feral and ferocious, though it is far less common than either. Modern readers are more likely to meet it in dictionaries than in print.
How FERITY is used
Rare and literary; seen mainly in older or deliberately elevated writing.
- The ferity of the mountain people frightened the early surveyors.
- Nothing had tamed the ferity of the young stallion.
- The poem celebrates the ferity of the northern sea.
- Hunger had stripped the dog of everything but ferity.
- He admired the ferity of the untouched forest.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FERITY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of FERITY
The 6 tiles of FERITY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in FERITY
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Common questions about FERITY
- Is FERITY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FERITY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FERITY worth?
- FERITY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FERITY mean?
- The state of being wild, savage or untamed.
- What letters can be added to FERITY?
- No single letter can be added to FERITY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of FERITY:
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