SLATY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SLATY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SLATY?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SLATY is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SLATY
No single letter turns SLATY into another word.
How SLATY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SLATY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does SLATY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Having the colour, texture, or structure of slate, especially a dull bluish-grey.
Slaty most often describes a colour, calling up the flat, muted grey-blue tone of natural slate rock, as when writers describe a slaty sky before a storm. It can also describe a physical structure, meaning a material splits easily into thin, flat layers the way slate does. Geologists use the word more precisely for rock that has developed the fine, parallel layering typical of true slate. The alternative spelling slatey appears in some dictionaries alongside slaty, though slaty is the more common form.
How SLATY is used
Descriptive adjective used for colour in everyday writing and for rock structure in geology.
- Thick slaty clouds gathered before the rain began.
- The bird's slaty feathers blended with the winter sky.
- Geologists examined the slaty layers of the exposed cliff.
- Her eyes were a slaty grey rather than pure blue.
- The roof tiles had a rough, slaty texture.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SLATY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SLATY
The 5 tiles of SLATY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in SLATY
Common questions about SLATY
- Is SLATY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SLATY, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SLATY worth?
- SLATY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SLATY mean?
- Having the colour, texture, or structure of slate, especially a dull bluish-grey.
- What letters can be added to SLATY?
- No single letter can be added to SLATY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SLATY:
Open SLATY in the Word Finder