FERNY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. FERNY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FERNY?
| 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 FERNY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FERNY
No single letter turns FERNY into another word.
How FERNY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FERNY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does FERNY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Covered with ferns, or resembling a fern in appearance.
Ferny describes a place thick with growing ferns, such as a shaded woodland floor or the damp edge of a stream, and by extension anything with the delicate, feathery look of a fern's fronds, from a pattern on fabric to frost on a window pane. The word is common enough in ordinary descriptive writing that it needs no special register.
How FERNY is used
Before or after a noun, as in a ferny bank or the path was ferny underfoot.
- The path wound through a ferny hollow below the ridge.
- Frost left a ferny pattern across the whole window.
- Their garden had a ferny corner nothing else would grow in.
- A ferny green suited the wallpaper better than plain white.
- The stream bank stayed ferny and cool all through August.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FERNY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FERNY
4 longer words begin with FERNY.
Shorter words from the letters in FERNY
Common questions about FERNY
- Is FERNY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FERNY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FERNY worth?
- FERNY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FERNY mean?
- Covered with ferns, or resembling a fern in appearance.
- What letters can be added to FERNY?
- No single letter can be added to FERNY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FERNY:
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