SWALY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. SWALY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept SWALY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SWALY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SWALY
No single letter turns SWALY into another word.
How SWALY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SWALY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What stands out about SWALY
- The same 5 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 SWALY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialect
Marshy, of ground that stays wet and soft underfoot.
Swaly names low ground that never quite dries out, the kind that pulls at a boot with every step. Farmers used the word for a field or hollow too waterlogged to plough or graze safely. The sense sits close to boggy and swampy, though swaly stayed a local rather than a national word. Place names in parts of England still preserve the same root for hollows that flood after rain.
How SWALY is used
Dialect, chiefly English regional speech; describes waterlogged, marshy ground.
- The lower field turned swaly after the autumn rains.
- Cattle avoided the swaly corner of the meadow.
- A swaly hollow like that never dries out by summer.
- The path crossed a swaly patch thick with reeds.
- Nothing grew well on such swaly ground.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SWALY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SWALY
The 5 tiles of SWALY in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in SWALY
Common questions about SWALY
- Is SWALY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SWALY is not in it.
- How many points is SWALY worth?
- SWALY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SWALY mean?
- Marshy, of ground that stays wet and soft underfoot.
- What letters can be added to SWALY?
- No single letter can be added to SWALY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SWALY:
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