PENURY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. PENURY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PENURY?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PENURY is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PENURY
No single letter turns PENURY into another word.
How PENURY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PENURY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 172,461.
What does PENURY mean in Scrabble?
noun
formal
A condition of severe want, in which a person lacks even the basic means to live.
Penury is poverty at its harshest: not merely having little, but being unable to afford what is needed from day to day. It comes through Latin from a word meaning need or scarcity. Writers use penury for a lasting state, often with the sense of a fall from better circumstances, as in a family that sank into penury after a bankruptcy. It is more literary than the plain word poverty.
How PENURY is used
Formal or literary; often follows the verbs sink into, live in or be reduced to.
- The poet died in penury, his best work still unpublished.
- A string of bad harvests drove the village into penury.
- She had known penury as a child and never forgot it.
- The widow was reduced to penury after the bank failed.
- Years of penury had left the old house bare of furniture.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PENURY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PENURY
The 6 tiles of PENURY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in PENURY
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Common questions about PENURY
- Is PENURY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PENURY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PENURY worth?
- PENURY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PENURY mean?
- A condition of severe want, in which a person lacks even the basic means to live.
- What letters can be added to PENURY?
- No single letter can be added to PENURY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PENURY:
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