JEELY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 15 points
It depends on the list you play by. JEELY 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 15 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept JEELY?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JEELY is to know. It scores 15 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JEELY
No single letter turns JEELY into another word.
How JEELY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in JEELY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 142,590.
What does JEELY mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scots
Jam or fruit preserve, in Scots usage, especially as a spread eaten on bread.
Jeely is the Scots form of jelly, used chiefly to mean a soft fruit preserve rather than a wobbly dessert. It appears most famously in the phrase jeely piece, a slice of bread spread with jam, a familiar treat from Scottish childhood. The same word can also serve as a verb meaning to make something into jelly by boiling fruit with sugar. Outside Scotland the spelling and pronunciation are rarely encountered, though the underlying idea matches ordinary English jam.
How JEELY is used
Scots dialect; heard in everyday speech in Scotland, especially in the phrase jeely piece for a jam sandwich.
- His mother spread thick jeely on the warm bread.
- The children asked for a jeely piece before school.
- She boiled the berries down into a jar of jeely.
- Nothing beat a jeely sandwich after a long walk.
- The recipe explains how to jeely the plums for winter.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JEELY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with JEELY
1 longer words begin with JEELY.
Shorter words from the letters in JEELY
Common questions about JEELY
- Is JEELY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and JEELY is not in it.
- How many points is JEELY worth?
- JEELY is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JEELY mean?
- Jam or fruit preserve, in Scots usage, especially as a spread eaten on bread.
- What letters can be added to JEELY?
- No single letter can be added to JEELY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of JEELY:
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