LYARD is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. LYARD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LYARD?
| 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 LYARD is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LYARD
No single letter turns LYARD into another word.
How LYARD scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LYARD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does LYARD mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Scotsarchaic
Streaked or spotted with grey or white, especially having grey hair.
Lyard describes hair, fur, or a surface marked with patches or streaks of grey mixed among darker color, and it was once a common way to describe an old or ageing person's greying head. The word survives mainly in older Scots verse and in dictionaries of unusual words rather than in everyday speech. In older Scots the same root produced liard and lyart, both meaning grey or dapple-grey, so lyard belongs to a small family of now-uncommon color words.
How LYARD is used
Chiefly Scots and literary; met in older poetry rather than in ordinary present-day writing.
- The old shepherd's lyard beard stood out against his weathered face.
- A lyard horse grazed quietly at the edge of the field.
- Her lyard hair marked the years she had spent working outdoors.
- The poem describes a lyard head bowed low in grief.
- His lyard eyebrows gave him a permanently surprised look.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LYARD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of LYARD
The 5 tiles of LYARD in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in LYARD
8 words end in LYARD. Useful as a back hook: play LYARD onto a word already on the board.
Words with LYARD inside
7 words contain LYARD in the middle. Words that start with LYARD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LYARD
Common questions about LYARD
- Is LYARD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LYARD, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LYARD worth?
- LYARD is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LYARD mean?
- Streaked or spotted with grey or white, especially having grey hair.
- What letters can be added to LYARD?
- No single letter can be added to LYARD to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LYARD:
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