OVERWEARY is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. OVERWEARY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OVERWEARY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OVERWEARY is to know. It scores 18 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OVERWEARY
No single letter turns OVERWEARY into another word.
How OVERWEARY scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in OVERWEARY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so OVERWEARY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does OVERWEARY mean in Scrabble?
verb
rare
To tire someone out completely or to wear them down with too much effort.
To overweary a person is to push them past ordinary tiredness into exhaustion. It is a rare, rather literary verb, usually seen in the passive and in older prose.
How OVERWEARY is used
Rare and literary; the adjective sense means excessively weary.
- Long marches began to overweary the soldiers.
- Do not overweary the child with endless lessons.
- The overweary travellers collapsed in the shade.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OVERWEARY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OVERWEARY
1 longer words begin with OVERWEARY.
Shorter words from the letters in OVERWEARY
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Common questions about OVERWEARY
- Is OVERWEARY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OVERWEARY, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OVERWEARY worth?
- OVERWEARY is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OVERWEARY mean?
- To tire someone out completely or to wear them down with too much effort.
- What letters can be added to OVERWEARY?
- No single letter can be added to OVERWEARY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of OVERWEARY:
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