GRYPE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. GRYPE 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 GRYPE?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GRYPE is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GRYPE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
grypesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GRYPE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GRYPE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does GRYPE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
An old spelling of a bird of prey resembling a vulture or griffin, found in early English writing.
Grype turns up in older bestiaries and translations where writers described a large, fierce bird thought to seize and carry off animals or even people. The spelling later settled toward griffin for the mythical creature, leaving grype as a form modern readers meet only in reprints of early texts. It is unrelated to the everyday sense of gripe as a small complaint.
How GRYPE is used
Archaic; found only in early English texts and their modern reprints, not in current writing.
- The old chronicle described a grype carrying off a lamb.
- Illustrators drew the grype with claws like a hawk.
- The translator kept the word grype rather than modernizing it.
- Legends of the grype fed later stories of the griffin.
- Few readers today would recognize grype without a footnote.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GRYPE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GRYPE
1 longer words begin with GRYPE.
Shorter words from the letters in GRYPE
Common questions about GRYPE
- Is GRYPE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and GRYPE is not in it.
- How many points is GRYPE worth?
- GRYPE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GRYPE mean?
- An old spelling of a bird of prey resembling a vulture or griffin, found in early English writing.
- What letters can be added to GRYPE?
- GRYPE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GRYPE:
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