POLEY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. POLEY 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 accept it.
Which word lists accept POLEY?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POLEY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POLEY
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POLEY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in POLEY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 49,015.
What does POLEY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Australiandialect
Hornless, especially of cattle; also, as a noun, a hornless cow.
A poley beast has no horns, either because the breed naturally lacks them or because they were removed, and Australian farming speech uses the word both as an adjective and as a noun for the animal itself. It comes from the same root as poll, an old word for the head, since a hornless head is a poll without horns. The more usual word for the same condition across most of English is polled, and poley survives mainly in Australian rural and dialect speech rather than in general farming English.
How POLEY is used
Chiefly Australian rural and dialect speech, used of cattle and similar horned livestock.
- The poley heifer never needed her horns trimmed.
- He kept a small herd of poley cattle on the back paddock.
- A poley calf can graze safely alongside horned stock.
- The stockman pointed out which cows in the yard were poley.
- Breeders favour a poley bull to avoid horn injuries in the herd.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POLEY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of POLEY
The 5 tiles of POLEY in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with POLEY
3 longer words begin with POLEY.
Shorter words from the letters in POLEY
Common questions about POLEY
- Is POLEY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POLEY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POLEY worth?
- POLEY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POLEY mean?
- Hornless, especially of cattle; also, as a noun, a hornless cow.
- What letters can be added to POLEY?
- POLEY takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of POLEY:
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