RHY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. RHY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 9 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept RHY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RHY is to know. It scores 9 from 3 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RHY
No single letter turns RHY into another word.
How RHY scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in RHY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,738.
What does RHY mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterary
An archaic spelling of rye, the cereal grain.
Rhy is an older way of writing rye, the hardy grain long grown for bread and animal feed across cooler climates. The spelling appears in older poetry, notably associated with Edmund Spenser, before rye became the settled modern form.
How RHY is used
Found only in archaic and literary texts; modern English writes rye.
- The old poem describes fields of golden rhy.
- Bread was baked from rhy in the village mill.
- Farmers sowed rhy along the hillside each autumn.
- The verse praises the harvest of rhy and barley.
- A bundle of rhy stood drying by the barn.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RHY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RHY
Showing 24 of 69 words that begin with RHY.
Words ending in RHY
1 words end in RHY. Useful as a back hook: play RHY onto a word already on the board.
Words with RHY inside
Showing 24 of 68 words that contain RHY somewhere in the middle. Words that start with RHY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Common questions about RHY
- Is RHY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and RHY is not in it.
- How many points is RHY worth?
- RHY is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RHY mean?
- An archaic spelling of rye, the cereal grain.
- What letters can be added to RHY?
- No single letter can be added to RHY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of RHY:
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