RAYAH is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. RAYAH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RAYAH?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RAYAH is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RAYAH
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
rayahsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RAYAH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RAYAH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does RAYAH mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A non-Muslim subject of the Ottoman Empire, historically taxed and excluded from the ruling class.
Under Ottoman rule a rayah paid a special poll tax and stood outside the military and administrative class that governed the empire, a status that applied to Christian and Jewish communities across the Balkans and the Middle East. Historians use the term when describing the layered social order of the empire, where legal status depended heavily on religion rather than wealth alone. The word faded from ordinary use once the Ottoman Empire itself ended, and it now belongs almost entirely to history books.
How RAYAH is used
Historical term, found in writing about the Ottoman Empire rather than in modern speech.
- As a rayah, the merchant paid a poll tax the ruling class did not.
- The historian described the daily life of a rayah village under Ottoman rule.
- Uprisings often began among the rayah communities of the Balkans.
- A rayah family kept careful records of the taxes it had paid.
- The empire divided its subjects sharply between ruler and rayah.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RAYAH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RAYAH
1 longer words begin with RAYAH.
Shorter words from the letters in RAYAH
Common questions about RAYAH
- Is RAYAH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RAYAH, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RAYAH worth?
- RAYAH is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RAYAH mean?
- A non-Muslim subject of the Ottoman Empire, historically taxed and excluded from the ruling class.
- What letters can be added to RAYAH?
- RAYAH takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RAYAH:
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