SPIRY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. SPIRY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SPIRY?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPIRY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPIRY
No single letter turns SPIRY into another word.
How SPIRY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SPIRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does SPIRY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Rising in a tall, slender, tapering shape, like the spire of a church.
Writers reach for spiry when describing mountain peaks, ice formations, or church towers that narrow gradually toward a point. The word appears mostly in older travel writing and poetry, where a spiry outline against the sky suggested grandeur or distance. Unlike the plain adjective pointed, spiry specifically evokes the silhouette of an architectural spire rather than a simple sharp tip. Modern prose rarely uses spiry, so most readers now meet it only in nineteenth-century accounts of mountains and cathedrals.
How SPIRY is used
Rare and mostly literary, found in older descriptive writing about towers, peaks, and ice.
- The spiry peaks glowed pink in the last light of evening.
- A row of spiry church towers marked the edge of the old town.
- Explorers described the spiry ice formations rising from the glacier.
- The artist sketched the spiry outline of the distant cathedral.
- Fog wrapped around the spiry rock towers along the coastline.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPIRY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in SPIRY
1 words end in SPIRY. Useful as a back hook: play SPIRY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in SPIRY
Common questions about SPIRY
- Is SPIRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPIRY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPIRY worth?
- SPIRY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPIRY mean?
- Rising in a tall, slender, tapering shape, like the spire of a church.
- What letters can be added to SPIRY?
- No single letter can be added to SPIRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SPIRY:
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