What STRAY Means
- verb: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment“The gypsies roamed the woods”
- verb: wander from a direct course or at random“The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her”
- adjective: not close together in time“isolated instances of rebellion”
- adjective: (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home“a stray calf”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
STRAY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 T1 R1 A1 Y4.
Anagrams of STRAY (3)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In STRAY
38 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 (13)
3 letter words (18)
2 letter words (7)
Longer Words Containing STRAY
STRAY appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.