SLEETY is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. SLEETY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SLEETY?
| 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 SLEETY is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SLEETY
No single letter turns SLEETY into another word.
How SLEETY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SLEETY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 94,070.
What stands out about SLEETY
- The same 6 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 SLEETY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Marked by sleet, the mix of rain and half-frozen snow.
Sleety describes weather that sits between rain and snow, when the drops freeze on the way down and sting the face. It is applied to days, winds, roads and streets, and it almost always carries a sense of misery and cold. A sleety evening makes pavements slick without the clean white cover of a proper snowfall.
How SLEETY is used
Used for raw, wet winter weather, especially in British and northern writing.
- We walked home through the sleety dark.
- A sleety wind rattled the shutters.
- The sleety morning turned the road to grey slush.
- Nobody wanted to wait at the sleety bus stop.
- It was a sleety March, cold and wet.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SLEETY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SLEETY
The 6 tiles of SLEETY in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in SLEETY
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Common questions about SLEETY
- Is SLEETY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SLEETY, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SLEETY worth?
- SLEETY is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SLEETY mean?
- Marked by sleet, the mix of rain and half-frozen snow.
- What letters can be added to SLEETY?
- No single letter can be added to SLEETY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SLEETY:
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