SCRAY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. SCRAY 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept SCRAY?
| 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 SCRAY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCRAY
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SCRAY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SCRAY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What stands out about SCRAY
- 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 SCRAY mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialect
A dialect name for the tern, a slender seabird with pointed wings and a forked tail.
Scray comes from an old English dialect term for the tern, sometimes written scraye, and probably imitates the bird's harsh cry. Coastal communities used scray long before ornithologists settled on tern as the standard name, and the word survives today mainly in older regional writing and wordlists. It names the bird itself rather than any behaviour, so a scray wheeling overhead is simply a tern.
How SCRAY is used
A regional, largely historical name for the tern; standard English now says tern instead.
- Fishermen along the coast once called every diving seabird a scray.
- The old glossary listed scray as another word for the tern.
- A scray wheeled low over the harbour before diving for fish.
- Few readers today would recognise scray without a footnote.
- The dialect word scray has almost vanished from everyday speech.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCRAY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SCRAY
The 5 tiles of SCRAY in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SCRAY
3 longer words begin with SCRAY.
Shorter words from the letters in SCRAY
Common questions about SCRAY
- Is SCRAY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SCRAY is not in it.
- How many points is SCRAY worth?
- SCRAY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCRAY mean?
- A dialect name for the tern, a slender seabird with pointed wings and a forked tail.
- What letters can be added to SCRAY?
- SCRAY takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SCRAY:
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