SORRY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SORRY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SORRY?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SORRY is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SORRY
No single letter turns SORRY into another word.
How SORRY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SORRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 78,425.
What does SORRY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Feeling or expressing regret, sympathy or apology; also, in a weaker sense, poor, pitiful or regrettable in quality.
A person who says sorry after upsetting a friend is acknowledging fault and offering a quiet form of contrition, even when the word appears as a bare, one-syllable exclamation rather than a full sentence. The same short word carries compassion for someone else's misfortune, as in sorry for your loss, where the speaker is comforting rather than confessing any wrongdoing of their own. A quite different, older use has nothing to do with contrition at all: a sorry excuse or a sorry state describes something shabby, inferior or disappointing rather than an emotion. British speakers reach for sorry once more as a polite way of asking someone to repeat a sentence they missed.
How SORRY is used
Extremely common in everyday speech, both as a direct apology and, more loosely, to describe something regrettably poor in quality.
- He said he was sorry for arriving so late.
- Sorry, could you repeat that last part?
- She felt sorry for the stray dog shivering in the rain.
- The car was in a sorry state after the accident.
- I am sorry for your loss, he said quietly.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SORRY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SORRY
1 longer words begin with SORRY.
Shorter words from the letters in SORRY
Common questions about SORRY
- Is SORRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SORRY, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SORRY worth?
- SORRY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SORRY mean?
- Feeling or expressing regret, sympathy or apology; also, in a weaker sense, poor, pitiful or regrettable in quality.
- What letters can be added to SORRY?
- No single letter can be added to SORRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SORRY:
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