SKERRY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. SKERRY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SKERRY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SKERRY is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SKERRY
No single letter turns SKERRY into another word.
How SKERRY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SKERRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 827,814.
What stands out about SKERRY
- SKERRY 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 SKERRY mean in Scrabble?
noun
A small rocky island or a reef, especially one off a rugged coast.
A skerry is too small and bare to be lived on, a rock lifted out of the sea that waves break over at high tide. The word reached English from Old Norse by way of Scotland and the northern isles, where such rocks are very numerous. Sailors have always feared the skerry, because many lie just under the surface and wreck unwary boats.
How SKERRY is used
Mainly met in Scottish and Scandinavian coastal settings; also used in poetry and in sea stories.
- Seals basked on the skerry beyond the harbour mouth.
- The lifeboat searched every skerry along the coast.
- A single skerry stood between the ship and open water.
- Gulls nested on the bare skerry each spring.
- The fog lifted and revealed a black skerry dead ahead.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SKERRY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SKERRY
The 6 tiles of SKERRY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in SKERRY
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Common questions about SKERRY
- Is SKERRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SKERRY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SKERRY worth?
- SKERRY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SKERRY mean?
- A small rocky island or a reef, especially one off a rugged coast.
- What letters can be added to SKERRY?
- No single letter can be added to SKERRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SKERRY:
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