LOWRY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. LOWRY 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 LOWRY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LOWRY 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 LOWRY
No single letter turns LOWRY into another word.
How LOWRY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LOWRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What does LOWRY mean in Scrabble?
noun
Britishdialect
An open freight wagon used on railways, a dialect variant of lorry.
A lowry runs on rails rather than roads, carrying loose loads such as coal or stone in an open top rather than a closed body. The spelling sits between lorry and the parrot name lory, but it names a piece of railway equipment and has nothing to do with either of those.
How LOWRY is used
A dialect and railway-industry term, rarely seen outside older British usage.
- Workers loaded coal into the waiting lowry.
- The lowry rattled along the siding toward the depot.
- Each lowry could hold several tons of stone.
- An empty lowry was shunted back up the line.
- The old timetable still lists the lowry by its yard number.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LOWRY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in LOWRY
Common questions about LOWRY
- Is LOWRY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and LOWRY is not in it.
- How many points is LOWRY worth?
- LOWRY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LOWRY mean?
- An open freight wagon used on railways, a dialect variant of lorry.
- What letters can be added to LOWRY?
- No single letter can be added to LOWRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LOWRY:
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