How many points in Scrabble is overly worth? overly how many points in Words With Friends? What does overly mean? Get all these answers on this page.
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Is overly a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word overly is a Scrabble US word. The word overly is worth 12 points in Scrabble:
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Is overly a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word overly is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:
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Is overly a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word overly is a Words With Friends word. The word overly is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 49 words from overly according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
over + -ly
overly (not comparable)
overly (comparative more overly, superlative most overly)
The word is sometimes deemed erroneous. The American source M-W's Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, 1989, eventually settles on accepting it, but has this to say: "Bache 1869 and Ayres 1881 succinctly insulted contemporaries who used this word, calling them vulgar and unschooled. Times have changed: modern critics merely insult the word itself. Follett 1966, for example, claims that overly is useless, superfluous, and unharmonious, and should be replaced by the prefix over-. Bryson 1984 adds that 'when this becomes overinelegant ... the alternative is to find another adverb [...]'." The prefix over- is safer, and accepted by all: "He seemed over-anxious." M-W, AHD4, and RH include the word without comment, and OED notes only "After the Old English period, rare (outside Scotland and North America) until the 20th cent." In most cases "too" or "excessively" would be better choices than "over-".