GHARRY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. GHARRY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GHARRY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GHARRY is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GHARRY
No single letter turns GHARRY into another word.
How GHARRY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in GHARRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 735,835.
What stands out about GHARRY
- GHARRY gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does GHARRY mean in Scrabble?
noun
Indian Englishhistorical
A horse-drawn carriage for hire in India and neighbouring parts of South Asia.
Travellers in colonial and later South Asian cities hired a gharry much as people elsewhere hailed a cab, and the driver would haggle over the fare before setting off. The word came into English from Hindi and is found mostly in older travel writing and memoirs of the region. A spelling gharri also exists, but gharry is the form most English writers use.
How GHARRY is used
Mainly historical or regional; met in writing about South Asia.
- We took a gharry from the station to the hotel.
- The gharry rattled along the dusty road past the bazaar.
- A driver sat on the box of the gharry and flicked his whip.
- In the story, a gharry waits outside the club every evening.
- She remembered the sound of the gharry horses in the morning streets.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GHARRY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in GHARRY
Common questions about GHARRY
- Is GHARRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GHARRY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GHARRY worth?
- GHARRY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GHARRY mean?
- A horse-drawn carriage for hire in India and neighbouring parts of South Asia.
- What letters can be added to GHARRY?
- No single letter can be added to GHARRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of GHARRY:
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