VENERY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. VENERY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept VENERY?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VENERY is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VENERY
No single letter turns VENERY into another word.
How VENERY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in VENERY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 125,426.
What does VENERY mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
The sport of hunting wild animals; also, in older usage, the pursuit of sexual pleasure.
Both senses descend from Latin venari, to hunt, and from the goddess of love Venus, and the two ideas were once close enough that the word served for either. Medieval and Tudor books on venery set out the rules of the chase, down to the names of the cries and the parts of the stag. Today the hunting meaning survives mostly in historical writing and in old collective terms for animals.
How VENERY is used
Archaic; read mainly in historical and literary contexts, with the hunting sense the more usual one.
- The king wrote a long treatise on venery and the chase.
- Every young nobleman was taught the rules of venery.
- Old books of venery list a special name for each cry of the hounds.
- The library keeps a rare illustrated work on medieval venery.
- In the older text, venery meant the sport of the hunt.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VENERY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in VENERY
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Common questions about VENERY
- Is VENERY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VENERY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VENERY worth?
- VENERY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VENERY mean?
- The sport of hunting wild animals; also, in older usage, the pursuit of sexual pleasure.
- What letters can be added to VENERY?
- No single letter can be added to VENERY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of VENERY:
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