SLUICY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. SLUICY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SLUICY?
| 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 SLUICY is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SLUICY
No single letter turns SLUICY into another word.
How SLUICY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SLUICY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 517,384.
What does SLUICY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Falling heavily in streams, as water rushes from a sluice gate.
A sluice is a sliding gate that controls the flow of water, and sluicy borrows the picture of water released all at once. Writers use it mostly for rain that pours down in sheets and for gutters running full. Because it is uncommon, the word tends to appear in descriptive prose and in word lists rather than in daily conversation.
How SLUICY is used
Rare; mostly literary or descriptive, often about rain.
- A sluicy downpour drove everyone off the street.
- They ran for shelter from the sluicy rain.
- The sluicy weather lasted the whole week.
- Gutters ran full in the sluicy evening storm.
- He wrote of a sluicy April that flooded the lower fields.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SLUICY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SLUICY
Common questions about SLUICY
- Is SLUICY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SLUICY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SLUICY worth?
- SLUICY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SLUICY mean?
- Falling heavily in streams, as water rushes from a sluice gate.
- What letters can be added to SLUICY?
- No single letter can be added to SLUICY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SLUICY:
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