SPURRY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. SPURRY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SPURRY?
| 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 SPURRY is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPURRY
No single letter turns SPURRY into another word.
How SPURRY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SPURRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,242 thousand.
What stands out about SPURRY
- SPURRY 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 SPURRY mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A low annual weed of the pink family with thread-like whorled leaves and small white flowers.
Spurry belongs to the pink family and grows as a small, sprawling weed on sandy or poor soil across Europe. Farmers have sometimes sown it as fodder for sheep, and its slender leaves grow in rings around the stem, a feature that helps botanists tell it from neighbours. The name is also given to several related plants in the same group.
How SPURRY is used
Mostly a botanical and agricultural term; rare in everyday speech.
- Spurry had colonised the sandy edge of the field.
- The farmer once sowed spurry to feed his flock through dry spells.
- A thin carpet of spurry covered the old track.
- The botanist knelt to examine a sprig of spurry.
- White spurry flowers opened only in bright sun.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPURRY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SPURRY
Common questions about SPURRY
- Is SPURRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPURRY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPURRY worth?
- SPURRY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPURRY mean?
- A low annual weed of the pink family with thread-like whorled leaves and small white flowers.
- What letters can be added to SPURRY?
- No single letter can be added to SPURRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SPURRY:
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