SPHERY is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. SPHERY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SPHERY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPHERY is to know. It scores 14 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPHERY
No single letter turns SPHERY into another word.
How SPHERY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SPHERY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 517,384.
What stands out about SPHERY
- SPHERY gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
- 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 SPHERY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
poetic
Shaped like a sphere, or belonging to the heavenly spheres.
Poets use it for round things in the sky, and for the old idea of the stars set in turning spheres. In plain prose, people choose spherical instead. Sphery is a poetic cousin of spherical.
How SPHERY is used
Literary and rare, mostly in older verse.
- The poet wrote of sphery music above the clouds.
- A sphery glass hung from the ceiling.
- Sphery lights glowed over the harbour.
- The sphery dome shone in the moonlight.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPHERY and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SPHERY
The 6 tiles of SPHERY in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in SPHERY
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Common questions about SPHERY
- Is SPHERY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPHERY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPHERY worth?
- SPHERY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPHERY mean?
- Shaped like a sphere, or belonging to the heavenly spheres.
- What letters can be added to SPHERY?
- No single letter can be added to SPHERY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SPHERY:
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