HORARY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. HORARY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HORARY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HORARY is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HORARY
No single letter turns HORARY into another word.
How HORARY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in HORARY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 275,938.
What does HORARY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technicalrare
Relating to hours, or happening once every hour.
Horary comes from the Latin word for hour and appears mainly in older scientific and clockmaking writing, where a horary circle marks the hours on an instrument. In astrology it names a branch that answers a question by drawing a chart for the exact moment the question is asked. Outside those fields the word is uncommon, and most speakers would say hourly.
How HORARY is used
Technical and rare; mostly in astrology and the history of timekeeping.
- The old sundial carried a horary scale around its rim.
- An astrologer cast a horary chart to answer her question.
- The traveller wrote that the horary angles were measured at noon.
- A horary reading depends on the time the question is posed.
- The monastery bell gave a horary signal for each prayer.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HORARY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in HORARY
Common questions about HORARY
- Is HORARY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HORARY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HORARY worth?
- HORARY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HORARY mean?
- Relating to hours, or happening once every hour.
- What letters can be added to HORARY?
- No single letter can be added to HORARY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of HORARY:
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