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5-Letter Words With OLY

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Popular 5-Letter Words With OLY

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All 5-Letter Words With OLY 9 words

How often does OLY appear in five-letter words?

Our combined English word list has 9 five-letter words containing OLY. They average 10 points and the best is POLYP (12 points).

Total words
9
Average Scrabble score
10
out of 12 max
Everyday words
11%
common in ordinary English
Most common ending
Y
66.7% of words

Most common last letters

  • y 66.7%
  • l 11.1%
  • p 11.1%

Top vowel pairs

  • oo66.7%

Share of words where these two vowels sit side by side.

Rare words worth knowing

Valid in this dictionary but rarely seen in everyday English.

Highest-scoring five-letter word containing OLY

p 3o 1l 1y 4p 3

P 3 + O 1 + L 1 + Y 4 + P 3 = 12 points

Double word
24 pts
Triple word
36 pts

Face value of the tiles, then the whole word on a double- or triple-word square (letter bonuses and bingos not included).

polyp

  1. nouna small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane
  2. nounone of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth“in some species of coelenterate, polyps are a phase in the life cycle that alternates with a medusoid phase”
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How many five-letter words containing OLY are there?

There are 9 five-letter words containing OLY in our combined English word list. Other dictionaries give different totals, so switch dictionary at the top of the list to compare.

What is the highest-scoring five-letter word containing OLY?

POLYP is worth 12 points in Scrabble before any bonus squares. Other strong options are HOOLY (11), WOOLY (11), POLYS (10).

Which rare five-letter words containing OLY score well?

Uncommon but valid choices include HOOLY (11), WOOLY (11), COOLY (10), MOOLY (10). Few players know them, so they can catch an opponent off guard.