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Is clay a Scrabble word?

Yes, clay is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 9 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of clay?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (tennis) A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.Examples: "The French Open is played on clay."uncountableusually

2. (biblical) The material of the human body.Examples: "From clay we are made."; "Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay."; "But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; and we are the work of thy hand."uncountableusually

3. (geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.uncountableusually

4. (firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.Examples: "We went shooting clays at the weekend."informaluncountableusually

5. (Internet slang, humorous) Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims.Examples: "Vilnius is rightful Polish clay."Internethumorousuncountableusually

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To add clay to, to spread clay onto.transitive

2. (transitive, of sugar) To purify using clay.Examples: "1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies, They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce."; "The Portuguese had mastered the technique of claying sugar, and other European nations tried to learn the secrets from them."transitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "clay"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "clay"?

Scrabble
9 points
C3
L1
A1
Y4
Words With Friends
10 points
C4
L2
A1
Y4

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