MURLY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. MURLY 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 MURLY?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MURLY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MURLY
No single letter turns MURLY into another word.
How MURLY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MURLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 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 MURLY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Scots
Crumbly or apt to crumble, used of soil, pastry or other dry, breakable material.
Murly comes from the Scots verb murl, meaning to crumble into small pieces, and the adjective keeps that sense of something breaking apart easily into crumbs. Scottish writers use murly for dry earth that falls apart under a spade, for pastry that flakes rather than holds together, or for old mortar that crumbles at a touch. The word survives mainly in Scots dictionaries and regional speech rather than in standard English prose.
How MURLY is used
Regional Scots; rare outside dialect writing and specialist word lists.
- The murly soil crumbled between her fingers.
- Old bakers prized a murly crust that broke apart at the first bite.
- Years of frost had left the mortar murly and weak.
- He described the biscuit as murly rather than firm.
- The field had murly ground that made ploughing difficult after the dry summer.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MURLY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MURLY
The 5 tiles of MURLY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in MURLY
Common questions about MURLY
- Is MURLY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and MURLY is not in it.
- How many points is MURLY worth?
- MURLY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MURLY mean?
- Crumbly or apt to crumble, used of soil, pastry or other dry, breakable material.
- What letters can be added to MURLY?
- No single letter can be added to MURLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MURLY:
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