WILY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. WILY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WILY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WILY is to know. It scores 10 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WILY
No single letter turns WILY into another word.
How WILY scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in WILY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 27,231.
What does WILY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Skilled at gaining an advantage by deception.
Wily comes from wile, a noun for a trick, and that noun is now rarer than the adjective built on it. The reversal is common in English: the adjective survives and the source fades.
How WILY is used
Before and after the noun. Comparative wilier.
- A wily opponent loses slowly and expensively.
- The word wily comes from a noun meaning a trick.
- The noun behind wily is now rarer than the adjective.
- More wily than clever, which is a different thing.
- Two wily answers and no information at all.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WILY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in WILY
5 words end in WILY. Useful as a back hook: play WILY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in WILY
Common questions about WILY
- Is WILY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WILY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WILY worth?
- WILY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WILY mean?
- Skilled at gaining an advantage by deception.
- What letters can be added to WILY?
- No single letter can be added to WILY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of WILY:
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