POETRY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. POETRY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POETRY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POETRY is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POETRY
No single letter turns POETRY into another word.
How POETRY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in POETRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 86,231.
What does POETRY mean in Scrabble?
noun
Writing arranged in lines, with rhythm and carefully chosen images, to express feeling and ideas intensely.
Poetry differs from ordinary prose in leaning on sound, line breaks and compressed imagery, though it need not rhyme. The word reaches English from Greek by way of Latin, from a verb meaning to make. People also speak of the poetry of a movement or a landscape when it moves them in the same way a poem would.
How POETRY is used
An uncountable noun; a single piece is called a poem.
- She reads poetry every morning before work.
- The poetry of the old ballads is simple and direct.
- He turned from prose to poetry late in life.
- There was a kind of poetry in the way the dancers moved.
- The class studied war poetry written in the trenches.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POETRY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in POETRY
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Common questions about POETRY
- Is POETRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POETRY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POETRY worth?
- POETRY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POETRY mean?
- Writing arranged in lines, with rhythm and carefully chosen images, to express feeling and ideas intensely.
- What letters can be added to POETRY?
- No single letter can be added to POETRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of POETRY:
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