RILEY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. RILEY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RILEY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RILEY is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RILEY
No single letter turns RILEY into another word.
How RILEY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RILEY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What does RILEY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialect
Muddy or cloudy, especially describing water stirred up with sediment; also used to mean irritable or easily angered.
Riley is a dialect variant of roily, most often heard in older or regional American English to describe water that has been stirred up and turned cloudy with mud or silt. The same word is also used, especially in folk speech, to describe a person's temper, meaning quick to anger or easily provoked. Both senses share the idea of something ordinarily calm being disturbed and unsettled.
How RILEY is used
Regional and somewhat old-fashioned; roily is now the more common spelling for the water sense in standard American English.
- The creek turned riley after the storm churned up the mud.
- Grandpa always said the pond ran riley in early spring.
- Don't get riley with me over such a small mistake.
- The fisherman avoided the riley water near the bank.
- She warned that the old mule got riley if pushed too hard.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RILEY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in RILEY
Common questions about RILEY
- Is RILEY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RILEY, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RILEY worth?
- RILEY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RILEY mean?
- Muddy or cloudy, especially describing water stirred up with sediment; also used to mean irritable or easily angered.
- What letters can be added to RILEY?
- No single letter can be added to RILEY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RILEY:
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