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Yes. The word ornery is a Scrabble US word. The word ornery is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word ornery is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

ORNERY,

5-letter words (2 found)

ONERY,ROYNE,

4-letter words (8 found)

ONER,OYER,RENO,RENY,RONE,RORE,RORY,YORE,

3-letter words (17 found)

EON,ERN,ERR,NOR,NOY,NYE,ONE,ONY,ORE,OYE,REN,REO,ROE,RYE,YEN,YER,YON,

2-letter words (12 found)

EN,ER,NE,NO,NY,OE,ON,OR,OY,RE,YE,YO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 41 words from ornery according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ornery

ornery

Etymology

A contracted or dialectal pronunciation of ordinary. Sense 3 (“ordinary, commonplace”) was the earliest sense; the meaning of the word then shifted to “inferior, plain-looking, unpleasant”—presumably due to ordinariness—and finally to sense 1 (“disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɔːnəɹi/, /ˈɔːnɹi/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔɹnəɹi/, /ˈɔɹnɹi/, /ˈɔnɹi/
  • Hyphenation: or‧ne‧ry

Adjective

ornery (comparative ornerier, superlative orneriest)

  2. (originally and chiefly US, especially Appalachia, informal) Disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with; cantankerous.
    Synonyms: contrary, crabby, cross-grained, crotchety, (US) honery, ill-tempered, intractable, obnoxious, obstreperous, peevish, (slang) stroppy, unsociable
  3. (Southern US, humorous, informal) Troublesome to deal with in a good way; mischievous, prankish, teasing.
    Synonym: full of the devil
  5. (obsolete) Ordinary, commonplace; hence, inferior, plain-looking, unpleasant.

Alternative forms

  • onery, onry, o'n'ry, ornary

Derived terms

  • ornerily
  • orneriness

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Source: wiktionary.org