SHARNY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. SHARNY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SHARNY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHARNY is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHARNY
No single letter turns SHARNY into another word.
How SHARNY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SHARNY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 229,948.
What stands out about SHARNY
- SHARNY 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 SHARNY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Scotsdialect
Smeared with or smelling of cow dung.
Sharny is a Scots dialect word for anything fouled by cattle droppings, such as a boot, a field gate or a farmyard. It belongs to the speech of farming communities and is seldom printed outside dialect writing. The same word can also name the person whose job was to clean out the byre.
How SHARNY is used
Dialect and rural; used mostly in Scots farming speech.
- He came in from the byre with sharny boots.
- The lane was sharny after the herd had passed.
- Her skirt was sharny to the knee after the muddy walk.
- Nobody wanted the sharny job of mucking out the byre.
- The old gate was sharny from years of cattle rubbing against it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHARNY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SHARNY
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Common questions about SHARNY
- Is SHARNY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHARNY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHARNY worth?
- SHARNY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHARNY mean?
- Smeared with or smelling of cow dung.
- What letters can be added to SHARNY?
- No single letter can be added to SHARNY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SHARNY:
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