VAIRY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. VAIRY 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 accept it.
Which word lists accept VAIRY?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VAIRY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VAIRY
No single letter turns VAIRY into another word.
How VAIRY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in VAIRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,728.
What does VAIRY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
heraldry
Marked with a repeating pattern of small shield shapes, as vair is, but in colours other than the usual blue and white.
A field described as vairy still uses the small bell-shaped or shield-shaped blocks that give vair its look, only the herald names a different pair of tinctures than the classic blue and white. Blazon spells out the colours right after the word, such as vairy or and gules.
How VAIRY is used
A specialist heraldic term, found in blazons and books on heraldry.
- A shield blazoned as vairy or and gules.
- The herald explained why the field counted as vairy rather than plain vair.
- A coat of arms with a vairy border in unusual colours.
- Books on heraldry list vairy among the variations of vair.
- Two charges sat on a vairy field of green and silver.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VAIRY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in VAIRY
Common questions about VAIRY
- Is VAIRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VAIRY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VAIRY worth?
- VAIRY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VAIRY mean?
- Marked with a repeating pattern of small shield shapes, as vair is, but in colours other than the usual blue and white.
- What letters can be added to VAIRY?
- No single letter can be added to VAIRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of VAIRY:
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