SEVERY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. SEVERY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SEVERY?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SEVERY is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SEVERY
No single letter turns SEVERY into another word.
How SEVERY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SEVERY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 188,140.
What does SEVERY mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
One bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling, treated as a single unit of the vault.
Architects and church historians reach for severy when a long stone roof has to be described piece by piece. A nave is then treated as a row of severies, each one seen from below as a curved panel between its neighbours. The term is a specialist one and turns up almost only in writing about buildings.
How SEVERY is used
Technical architectural term; found in descriptions of vaulted churches and halls.
- Each severy of the nave vault was painted with a different pattern of stars.
- The guide pointed to the damaged severy above the north aisle.
- Restorers cleaned the plaster of one severy at a time.
- A single severy can be seen from the floor as a shallow dome.
- The survey lists every severy in the cloister and its condition.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SEVERY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SEVERY
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Common questions about SEVERY
- Is SEVERY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SEVERY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SEVERY worth?
- SEVERY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SEVERY mean?
- One bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling, treated as a single unit of the vault.
- What letters can be added to SEVERY?
- No single letter can be added to SEVERY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SEVERY:
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