SMELLY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. SMELLY 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 SMELLY?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SMELLY is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SMELLY
No single letter turns SMELLY into another word.
How SMELLY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SMELLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,035 thousand.
What stands out about SMELLY
- SMELLY 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 SMELLY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informal
Giving off a bad or unpleasant odour.
Smelly is the plain, everyday word for anything whose odour offends the nose, from wet dogs to forgotten gym bags. It is built from smell plus the common suffix -y, and it sounds blunter than polite alternatives such as malodorous. Children and adults alike use it, which is why it turns up so often in casual talk.
How SMELLY is used
Everyday and slightly blunt; in formal writing a writer may prefer a word such as malodorous.
- The smelly socks were thrown straight into the wash.
- A smelly drain behind the kitchen finally got fixed.
- Nobody wanted to sit beside the smelly old cheese.
- She wrinkled her nose at the smelly puddle by the road.
- It is a smelly job, but someone has to empty the bins.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SMELLY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SMELLY
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Common questions about SMELLY
- Is SMELLY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SMELLY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SMELLY worth?
- SMELLY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SMELLY mean?
- Giving off a bad or unpleasant odour.
- What letters can be added to SMELLY?
- No single letter can be added to SMELLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SMELLY:
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