What PETRIFY Means
- verb: cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright“The horror petrified his feelings”
- verb: change into stone“the wood petrified with time”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PETRIFY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 E1 T1 R1 I1 F4 Y4.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 65 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In PETRIFY
102 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.
6 letter words (5)
5 letter words (14)
4 letter words (36)
FIERFIREFRETFRITPERIPERTPIERPIETPITYPREYPYETPYREREFTREIFRIFERIFTRIPERIPTRITERYFERYPETERFTIERTIRETREFTREYTRIETRIPTRYETRYPTYERTYPETYREYETIYIPEYITE
3 letter words (34)
EFTERFFERFETFEYFIEFIRFITFRYIREPERPETPIEPIRPITPREPRYPYEREFREIREPRETRIFRIPRITRYETEFTIETIPTRYTYEYEPYETYIP
2 letter words (13)
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