What JOLLY Means
- noun: a happy party
- noun: a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work
- verb: be silly or tease one another“After we relaxed, we just kidded around”
- adjective: full of or showing high-spirited merriment“when hearts were young and gay”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
JOLLY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as J8 O1 L1 L1 Y4.
Words Made From The Letters In JOLLY
8 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
4 letter words (1)
3 letter words (3)
2 letter words (4)
Longer Words Containing JOLLY
JOLLY appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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