SLILY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SLILY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SLILY?
| 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 SLILY is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SLILY
No single letter turns SLILY into another word.
How SLILY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SLILY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What stands out about SLILY
- The same 5 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 SLILY mean in Scrabble?
adverb
archaic
In a sly, cunning, or secretive manner; an older spelling of slyly.
Slily describes an action carried out with quiet cunning, often so that other people fail to notice what is really happening. Older printed texts favour the spelling slily, while modern writing has largely settled on slyly, though dictionaries still record slily as a legitimate variant rather than a mistake. Someone acting slily is usually shown as clever or mischievous rather than openly dishonest, which gives the word a lighter tone than a word such as deceitfully. Because of its old-fashioned spelling, slily now appears mostly in older novels and reprinted classic texts.
How SLILY is used
Older spelling variant of slyly; found chiefly in older or reprinted texts rather than current writing.
- He slily pocketed the extra coin before anyone noticed.
- She glanced slily at her friend across the table.
- The cat crept slily toward the sleeping bird.
- He slily changed the subject before he was caught out.
- The old narrator slily hinted at the ending long before it came.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SLILY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SLILY
The 5 tiles of SLILY in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in SLILY
Common questions about SLILY
- Is SLILY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SLILY, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SLILY worth?
- SLILY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SLILY mean?
- In a sly, cunning, or secretive manner; an older spelling of slyly.
- What letters can be added to SLILY?
- No single letter can be added to SLILY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SLILY:
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