SURGY is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. SURGY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SURGY?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SURGY is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SURGY
No single letter turns SURGY into another word.
How SURGY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SURGY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does SURGY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literaryrare
Rising and swelling in surges, like waves; billowy.
Surgy is a rare, mainly literary adjective favored by poets and older prose writers who wanted a vivid word for a heaving, wave-tossed sea rather than a plain term like rough or choppy. Because the word is uncommon in ordinary speech, most readers meet surgy only in older or deliberately poetic writing rather than in everyday conversation. It belongs to a small family of words built on surge, alongside surging and surger, though surgy itself has stayed far rarer than its relatives. A modern writer reaching for surgy is usually aiming for an old-fashioned or heightened tone rather than plain description.
How SURGY is used
Rare, literary adjective, seldom used outside older or poetic prose describing rough water.
- The ship pitched over a surgy sea beneath a darkening sky.
- Surgy waves battered the rocks throughout the night.
- The old poem describes a surgy ocean under a full moon.
- A surgy tide made the crossing dangerous for small boats.
- He watched the surgy water churn against the harbor wall.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SURGY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SURGY
The 5 tiles of SURGY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in SURGY
Common questions about SURGY
- Is SURGY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SURGY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SURGY worth?
- SURGY is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SURGY mean?
- Rising and swelling in surges, like waves; billowy.
- What letters can be added to SURGY?
- No single letter can be added to SURGY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SURGY:
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