STOURY is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. STOURY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept STOURY?
| 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 STOURY is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STOURY
No single letter turns STOURY into another word.
How STOURY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in STOURY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 129,346.
What does STOURY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Scots
Dusty, or full of blowing dust or drifting snow.
Stoury is a Scots adjective built on stour, meaning dust, so a stoury road is one that throws up clouds behind every cart. In some districts it also describes weather with driven snow or spray that stings the face. It appears mainly in Scottish writing and dialect, where the vivid sound of the word suits the gritty thing it names.
How STOURY is used
Scots and dialect; meet it in Scottish fiction and verse rather than in standard English.
- The stoury lane was white with summer dust.
- He came in from the stoury barn coughing.
- A stoury wind blew across the moor all afternoon.
- Her stoury boots left prints on the clean floor.
- They crossed the stoury plain before nightfall.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STOURY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of STOURY
The 6 tiles of STOURY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in STOURY
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Common questions about STOURY
- Is STOURY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts STOURY, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is STOURY worth?
- STOURY is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STOURY mean?
- Dusty, or full of blowing dust or drifting snow.
- What letters can be added to STOURY?
- No single letter can be added to STOURY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of STOURY:
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