TORREFY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. TORREFY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TORREFY?
| 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: 51 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TORREFY is to know. It scores 13 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TORREFY
No single letter turns TORREFY into another word.
How TORREFY scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in TORREFY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 463,182.
What does TORREFY mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To dry or roast something with intense heat, driving off moisture or impurities.
Metalworkers used to torrefy ores to drive off unwanted elements before smelting, and apothecaries did the same to drugs. Today the word turns up in the treatment of coffee, grain and biomass, where a controlled roast changes how the material behaves. It is a technical cousin of the everyday verb roast.
How TORREFY is used
Used in industry and chemistry for roasting something dry under controlled heat.
- Workers would torrefy the ore in a furnace before refining it.
- The plant uses a kiln to torrefy wood into a dense fuel.
- Old recipes told the apothecary to torrefy the root on an iron plate.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TORREFY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TORREFY
1 longer words begin with TORREFY.
Shorter words from the letters in TORREFY
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Common questions about TORREFY
- Is TORREFY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TORREFY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TORREFY worth?
- TORREFY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TORREFY mean?
- To dry or roast something with intense heat, driving off moisture or impurities.
- What letters can be added to TORREFY?
- No single letter can be added to TORREFY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of TORREFY:
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