HOTLY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. HOTLY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOTLY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOTLY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOTLY
No single letter turns HOTLY into another word.
How HOTLY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HOTLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What does HOTLY mean in Scrabble?
adverb
In a passionate, angry or intensely contested manner, rather than in a literal sense of heat.
Hotly usually describes the intensity of feeling behind an argument or pursuit rather than actual temperature, as in a hotly contested election or a claim hotly denied. The word pairs with a fixed set of verbs like contest, deny and pursue, giving writing a sense of urgency and strong emotion that the plain adjective hot rarely carries on its own.
How HOTLY is used
Common in news and formal writing, almost always paired with words like contested or denied.
- The election was hotly contested right up to the final count.
- He hotly denied any involvement in the scheme.
- Fans hotly debated the referee's decision for weeks afterward.
- The two rivals pursued the prize hotly all season.
- She argued hotly that the plan would never work.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOTLY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in HOTLY
Common questions about HOTLY
- Is HOTLY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOTLY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOTLY worth?
- HOTLY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOTLY mean?
- In a passionate, angry or intensely contested manner, rather than in a literal sense of heat.
- What letters can be added to HOTLY?
- No single letter can be added to HOTLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HOTLY:
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