SCARRY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. SCARRY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCARRY?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCARRY is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCARRY
No single letter turns SCARRY into another word.
How SCARRY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SCARRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 551,876.
What stands out about SCARRY
- SCARRY gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SCARRY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Marked with scars, or, of land, having bare rocky cliffs and outcrops.
Scarry is a rare descriptive adjective built from scar. Its commonest sense belongs to skin and wounds, but the older sense follows the northern word scar for a bare crag, so a scarry hillside is rocky and broken. Do not mistake it for scary, which is about fear and is spelled with a single r.
How SCARRY is used
Rare; most writers choose scarred, and the word survives mostly in word lists.
- The scarry old soldier rarely spoke of the war.
- A scarry limestone slope rose above the village.
- He ran his hand over the scarry bark of the oak.
- The scarry coast offered no safe place to land.
- Her scarry knuckles told of years in the workshop.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCARRY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SCARRY
Common questions about SCARRY
- Is SCARRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCARRY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCARRY worth?
- SCARRY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCARRY mean?
- Marked with scars, or, of land, having bare rocky cliffs and outcrops.
- What letters can be added to SCARRY?
- No single letter can be added to SCARRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SCARRY:
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