GLEBY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. GLEBY 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 GLEBY?
| 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 GLEBY 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 GLEBY
No single letter turns GLEBY into another word.
How GLEBY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GLEBY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does GLEBY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialect
Rich and fertile, said of soil, taking its sense from glebe, the old word for church land.
A gleby field is one whose ground holds moisture and nutrients well, producing strong crops without much extra effort, and the word survives mainly in older agricultural and dialect writing about parish land. Speakers reached for it to praise soil the way fertile does today, but with a more specific link to farmed church ground.
How GLEBY is used
Dialect and archaic; found in older agricultural writing rather than modern speech.
- The parson's glebe was famous locally for its gleby ground.
- Old surveys note which fields were gleby and which were thin and stony.
- The tenant paid more rent for the gleby acres near the river.
- A gleby patch behind the church yielded the best barley in the parish.
- Farmers judged land as gleby long before soil testing existed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GLEBY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in GLEBY
Common questions about GLEBY
- Is GLEBY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and GLEBY is not in it.
- How many points is GLEBY worth?
- GLEBY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GLEBY mean?
- Rich and fertile, said of soil, taking its sense from glebe, the old word for church land.
- What letters can be added to GLEBY?
- No single letter can be added to GLEBY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GLEBY:
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