UPDRY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. UPDRY 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 UPDRY?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UPDRY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UPDRY
No single letter turns UPDRY into another word.
How UPDRY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in UPDRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does UPDRY mean in Scrabble?
verb
dialectarchaic
To dry up completely, leaving no moisture behind.
Updry pairs the intensifying prefix up- with the plain verb dry, in the same pattern as other verbs that use up- to mean completely or to the end, as in eat up or burn up. The form belongs mainly to older regional English, where a stream, a well or a patch of ground could be said to updry after a long spell without rain. Standard modern English generally prefers a phrasal wording such as dry up or dry out instead, so updry now reads as a distinctly old or dialect choice. Word lists of regional English record the form chiefly from northern and Scottish sources.
How UPDRY is used
A dialect and archaic verb, rare outside older regional speech and specialised word lists.
- The long summer heat began to updry the shallow ponds.
- Villagers said the old well would updry before autumn.
- The ditches updry quickly once the rains stop.
- Farmers watched the fields updry after weeks without water.
- Even in autumn the stubborn stream refused to updry.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UPDRY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with UPDRY
1 longer words begin with UPDRY.
Shorter words from the letters in UPDRY
Common questions about UPDRY
- Is UPDRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UPDRY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UPDRY worth?
- UPDRY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UPDRY mean?
- To dry up completely, leaving no moisture behind.
- What letters can be added to UPDRY?
- No single letter can be added to UPDRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of UPDRY:
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