Compels is valid Scrabble Word

Is compels a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is compels valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for COMPELS in dictionary:

VERB:

COMPEL, to force
force or oblige (someone) to do something
bring about (something) by the use of force or pressure
force to come or go in a particular direction

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to urge forcefully

Words related to COMPELS

compel12 compelled16 compelling17

How to use COMPELS in a sentence

Browning is of the same school, and compels attention.
It is a sad necessity that compels us to pry into the weaknesses of our fellow-creatures, and seek to turn them to our own profit.
Respect for the authorities of a friendly nation compels us to admit that they have persuaded themselves that their claim is justly grounded.
Children must go to school between 8 and 14, unless they have already been taught adequately and poverty compels them to work.
But I hold it to be his second duty, and a close second, to do everything the law will let him do for the public good, and not merely what the law compels or directs him to do.
Charon, the demon, with eyes of burning coal, compels a crowd of spirits in his ferryboat.
The mere fact that there is a mystery excites my curiosity, and compels me to do all in my power to get to the bottom of it.
But respect for human nature compels us to hesitate in admitting a charge so monstrous.
To say the truth, their natural position, between two powerful neighbours, of necessity compels them to have recourse to these stratagems.
There is no force, no process, whether within us or outside us, that compels us to act contrary to our desires and our interests.

But my duty compels me to pay no heed to your valuable warning.
On asking the reason, I was told that she was a bride, whom custom compels, for a stated period, to make this humble reverence.
Doubtless there are limits to the degree of complexity which we find interesting and which compels attention.
They remain there most of the year, because they have a safer retreat, when the weather compels them to retire.
Socrates, by a series of questions, compels him to admit that the just and the expedient coincide.
One task never crowds another out, nor ever compels hurried, and therefore imperfect, doing.
The expansion of the school course over new fields of knowledge and the multiplication of studies already discussed compels us to seek for a simplification of the course.
They are the outcome of a discontent with prose, not of that high-strung sensibility which compels the true poet into verse.
Yet the chief criminal of all is not the individual, but the Society which not only encourages, but too often compels the crime.
Truth compels me to add that I find myself a sadder and wiser woman.
This checks prices, and, reducing the specie reserves of the banks, compels them to be more cautious.
He was no adept in the methods by which the modern sensational preacher compels the attention of the novelty-loving crowds in our cities.
The conscious or artificial breath is a muscular breath, and compels muscular control.
It compels the singer to directly and locally control the parts.
Candor compels me to state that his equipment was not large nor eminently practical.
Instinct alone compels us to neglect and seldom to recall the irrelevant infinity of ideas.
Thanks to the linguistic sense inherent in the Dutch, and to an educational system that compels the study of languages, English was already familiar to the father and mother.
Invention gives these gifts, and compels man to use them.
Competition compels them to do things they would not have to do if there were a cooperative system of industry.
What is true with respect to destitution is that it compels women to remain in the deplorable life they have adopted, but it seldom or never drives them to take to it.

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