MIRLY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. MIRLY 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept MIRLY?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MIRLY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MIRLY
No single letter turns MIRLY into another word.
How MIRLY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MIRLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does MIRLY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Scots
Marbled or streaked with patches of different colour.
Mirly describes a surface, a stone, or an animal's coat that shows patches of two or more colours running into one another rather than lying in a single even shade. Scots speakers used mirly for mottled skies, streaked marble, and cattle with a blotched hide. The word survives now mainly in dialect glossaries and in older Scots writing rather than in everyday speech.
How MIRLY is used
Scots dialect; found chiefly in older texts and dialect word lists.
- The old wall was built from mirly stone quarried nearby.
- A mirly sky at dusk promised a change in the weather.
- The farmer pointed out his one mirly calf among the plain brown herd.
- Her mirly shawl mixed grey, brown and cream in uneven bands.
- Dialect writers used mirly where a modern author would write mottled.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MIRLY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in MIRLY
Common questions about MIRLY
- Is MIRLY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and MIRLY is not in it.
- How many points is MIRLY worth?
- MIRLY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MIRLY mean?
- Marbled or streaked with patches of different colour.
- What letters can be added to MIRLY?
- No single letter can be added to MIRLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MIRLY:
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