RYE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. RYE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RYE?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RYE is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RYE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RYE scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in RYE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,123.
What does RYE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A hardy cereal grain used for bread and whisky.
Rye grows where wheat will not: poor soil, short seasons, hard winters. That is why it feeds the north and east of Europe, and why the bread made from it is dense — the gluten in rye behaves quite differently from the gluten in wheat.
How RYE is used
Uncountable: a field of rye, a rye loaf.
- Rye will crop on ground that would starve wheat.
- A rye loaf keeps a week where a white one keeps two days.
- They sow rye in autumn and cut it in July.
- Rye whisky and bourbon differ by the grain and by the law.
- The gluten in rye does not stretch the same way.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RYE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RYE
The 3 tiles of RYE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with RYE
9 longer words begin with RYE.
Words ending in RYE
6 words end in RYE. Useful as a back hook: play RYE onto a word already on the board.
Words with RYE inside
Showing 24 of 40 words that contain RYE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with RYE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RYE
Common questions about RYE
- Is RYE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RYE, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RYE worth?
- RYE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RYE mean?
- A hardy cereal grain used for bread and whisky.
- What letters can be added to RYE?
- RYE takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of RYE:
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