FIREFLY is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. FIREFLY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FIREFLY?
| 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: 53 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FIREFLY is to know. It scores 16 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FIREFLY
No single letter turns FIREFLY into another word.
How FIREFLY scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in FIREFLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 2 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,088 thousand.
What does FIREFLY mean in Scrabble?
noun
A soft-bodied winged beetle that produces flashes of light from its body, especially at night.
On warm summer evenings a firefly blinks in the dark, and the flashes help males and females find each other. Despite the name, it is a beetle and not a fly. Children often catch a firefly in a jar and release it again.
How FIREFLY is used
Firefly is an everyday nature word, common in stories, poems and summer-night descriptions.
- A single firefly drifted over the dark lawn, blinking slowly.
- We watched every firefly in the meadow flash in rhythm.
- The poem compares a distant lamp to a firefly in the hedge.
- She trapped a firefly in her hands and felt it glow between her fingers.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FIREFLY and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FIREFLY
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Common questions about FIREFLY
- Is FIREFLY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FIREFLY, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FIREFLY worth?
- FIREFLY is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FIREFLY mean?
- A soft-bodied winged beetle that produces flashes of light from its body, especially at night.
- What letters can be added to FIREFLY?
- No single letter can be added to FIREFLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of FIREFLY:
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