PRESIDIARY is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. PRESIDIARY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PRESIDIARY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PRESIDIARY is to know. It scores 16 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PRESIDIARY
No single letter turns PRESIDIARY into another word.
How PRESIDIARY scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in PRESIDIARY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PRESIDIARY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does PRESIDIARY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rarehistorical
Belonging to a garrison, or having soldiers stationed in it for defence.
Presidiary belongs mostly to histories of the Spanish empire and old frontier forts, where a presidio held a standing force. Today the word survives chiefly in scholarly writing about military outposts.
How PRESIDIARY is used
Rare; seen in historical and academic texts about forts and garrison towns.
- The presidiary town sat behind thick adobe walls.
- Historians mapped every presidiary post along the border.
- A presidiary force of forty men guarded the pass.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PRESIDIARY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PRESIDIARY
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Common questions about PRESIDIARY
- Is PRESIDIARY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PRESIDIARY, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PRESIDIARY worth?
- PRESIDIARY is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PRESIDIARY mean?
- Belonging to a garrison, or having soldiers stationed in it for defence.
- What letters can be added to PRESIDIARY?
- No single letter can be added to PRESIDIARY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of PRESIDIARY:
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