REIFY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. REIFY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept REIFY?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful REIFY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for REIFY
No single letter turns REIFY into another word.
How REIFY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in REIFY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does REIFY mean in Scrabble?
verb
formal
To treat an abstract idea or concept as if it were a real, concrete thing.
Philosophers and social scientists use reify to describe the mental habit of turning an idea like justice, the market or society into something that seems to act on its own, almost like a physical object with its own will. The word warns against this habit as much as it describes it, since treating an abstraction as concrete can hide the real people and choices behind it. Reify comes from the Latin res, meaning thing, which is also the root of the related noun reification.
How REIFY is used
Formal and mainly academic, common in philosophy, sociology and critical writing.
- The essay warns against reifying the market as though it had a mind of its own.
- Critics argue the report tends to reify race as a fixed biological category.
- It is easy to reify an institution and forget the people who run it.
- The lecture traced how early economists began to reify supply and demand.
- She cautioned students not to reify statistics into unquestionable facts.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of REIFY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of REIFY
The 5 tiles of REIFY in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with REIFY
1 longer words begin with REIFY.
Shorter words from the letters in REIFY
Common questions about REIFY
- Is REIFY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts REIFY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is REIFY worth?
- REIFY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does REIFY mean?
- To treat an abstract idea or concept as if it were a real, concrete thing.
- What letters can be added to REIFY?
- No single letter can be added to REIFY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of REIFY:
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