PURSY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PURSY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PURSY?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PURSY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PURSY
No single letter turns PURSY into another word.
How PURSY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PURSY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does PURSY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicliterary
Short of breath, especially from being overweight; fat and wheezing.
Older English used pursy to describe a person or horse so heavy that ordinary exertion left them breathless and wheezing, a condition writers once linked directly to overeating and soft living. The word could also carry a moral edge, describing someone puffed up with wealth or self-importance, much as purse-proud does today, since pursy is thought to derive from an old form related to purse and to shortness of breath in the lungs. Nineteenth-century novels use pursy freely for portly, short-winded characters, but the word has faded from ordinary modern speech. Readers mainly meet pursy now in older fiction rather than in current writing.
How PURSY is used
Archaic and literary; found chiefly in older fiction describing stout, short-winded characters.
- The pursy old merchant wheezed his way up the staircase.
- A pursy horse struggled to keep pace up the hill.
- The novel describes a pursy squire, red-faced after every meal.
- His pursy breathing worried the doctor examining him.
- She mocked the pursy councilman puffing through his speech.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PURSY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PURSY
The 5 tiles of PURSY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in PURSY
Common questions about PURSY
- Is PURSY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PURSY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PURSY worth?
- PURSY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PURSY mean?
- Short of breath, especially from being overweight; fat and wheezing.
- What letters can be added to PURSY?
- No single letter can be added to PURSY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PURSY:
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