FLARY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. FLARY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept FLARY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FLARY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FLARY
No single letter turns FLARY into another word.
How FLARY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FLARY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does FLARY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Tending to flare, or having a flame-like, flickering quality.
Flary describes something that flares up or spreads outward the way a flame does, whether the subject is an actual fire, a sudden bright light, or a shape such as a flary skirt that widens toward the hem. The word is rarely used in careful writing today, but it survives in descriptive and dialect contexts where flare-like feels too clumsy. It keeps a strong visual sense of sudden brightness or spreading shape.
How FLARY is used
Rare and mostly descriptive; seldom found outside informal or dialect writing.
- The candle gave off a flary, uneven light in the draught.
- She wore a flary skirt that swung out with every step.
- A flary burst of sparks rose from the bonfire.
- The old lamp had a flary flame that never burned steady.
- Smoke curled up in flary streaks above the chimney.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FLARY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FLARY
Common questions about FLARY
- Is FLARY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and FLARY is not in it.
- How many points is FLARY worth?
- FLARY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FLARY mean?
- Tending to flare, or having a flame-like, flickering quality.
- What letters can be added to FLARY?
- No single letter can be added to FLARY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FLARY:
Open FLARY in the Word Finder