RETRY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. RETRY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RETRY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RETRY is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RETRY
No single letter turns RETRY into another word.
How RETRY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RETRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 34,855.
What stands out about RETRY
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does RETRY mean in Scrabble?
verb
To attempt something again after an earlier attempt has failed.
Retry is widely used both in everyday speech and in technical fields such as computing, where a program may retry a failed connection or operation automatically before giving up. Outside technology, people retry a task, a test, or a request whenever the first effort does not succeed. The word implies a fresh attempt using the same basic approach rather than trying something completely different.
How RETRY is used
Common in both everyday and technical English, especially in software and networking, where systems retry failed operations automatically.
- The app will retry the download if the connection drops.
- He decided to retry the driving test after failing it once.
- Please retry your password if the login was rejected.
- The server will retry the request three times before giving up.
- She had to retry the recipe after the first batch burned.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RETRY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RETRY
The 5 tiles of RETRY in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with RETRY
1 longer words begin with RETRY.
Words ending in RETRY
1 words end in RETRY. Useful as a back hook: play RETRY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in RETRY
Common questions about RETRY
- Is RETRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RETRY, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RETRY worth?
- RETRY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RETRY mean?
- To attempt something again after an earlier attempt has failed.
- What letters can be added to RETRY?
- No single letter can be added to RETRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RETRY:
Open RETRY in the Word Finder