What THEREBY Means
- adverb: by that means or because of that“He knocked over the red wine, thereby ruining the table cloth”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
THEREBY 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 T1 H4 E1 R1 E1 B3 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 THEREBY
76 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 (2)
5 letter words (9)
4 letter words (31)
BEERBEETBEREBETEBETHBREEBREYBYREBYTEEERYETHEEYEREYREHEBEHERBHEREHERYHETEHYTERETETEERTEHRTHEETHEYTREETREYTRYETYEETYERTYREYBET
3 letter words (24)
2 letter words (10)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.