HURLY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. HURLY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HURLY?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HURLY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HURLY
No single letter turns HURLY into another word.
How HURLY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HURLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does HURLY mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
Noisy commotion, uproar or confused disturbance, as in the fixed phrase hurly-burly.
Hurly names the noise and disorder of a crowd, a scuffle or a busy scene rather than any single event. It survives today chiefly inside hurly-burly, though older writing used hurly on its own for the same tumult.
How HURLY is used
Rare outside the set phrase hurly-burly; on its own it now reads as old-fashioned or literary.
- The market fell into a hurly of shouting traders.
- Amid the hurly of the retreat, no one heard the order given.
- The old play opens on the hurly of a battlefield camp.
- Such hurly filled the tavern that the singer gave up.
- He longed for quiet after months of hurly in the crowded city.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HURLY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in HURLY
Common questions about HURLY
- Is HURLY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HURLY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HURLY worth?
- HURLY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HURLY mean?
- Noisy commotion, uproar or confused disturbance, as in the fixed phrase hurly-burly.
- What letters can be added to HURLY?
- No single letter can be added to HURLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HURLY:
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