FURZY is a valid Scrabble word — 20 points
Yes. FURZY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 20 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FURZY?
| 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: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FURZY is to know. It scores 20 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FURZY
No single letter turns FURZY into another word.
How FURZY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FURZY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 784,245.
What stands out about FURZY
- FURZY scores 20 points, more than twice the average for a 5-letter word (9.2).
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does FURZY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Britishregional
Overgrown with or characteristic of furze, a spiny yellow-flowered shrub more commonly called gorse.
Furzy describes rough, uncultivated ground covered in furze, the prickly shrub better known today as gorse, so a furzy hillside or common is one thick with its spiny yellow-flowered bushes. The word appears mainly in older or regional English nature writing describing heaths and commons rather than in everyday modern speech.
How FURZY is used
Regional and somewhat old-fashioned term, found mainly in descriptions of heathland and rough countryside.
- The path wound across a furzy common outside the village.
- Sheep grazed the thin grass between furzy patches on the hill.
- The old map marks the area as furzy waste ground.
- They pushed through a furzy stretch on the way to the cliff.
- A furzy slope rose behind the cottage, yellow with bloom in spring.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FURZY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FURZY
Common questions about FURZY
- Is FURZY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FURZY, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FURZY worth?
- FURZY is worth 20 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FURZY mean?
- Overgrown with or characteristic of furze, a spiny yellow-flowered shrub more commonly called gorse.
- What letters can be added to FURZY?
- No single letter can be added to FURZY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FURZY:
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