AAL is a valid Scrabble word — 3 points
Yes. AAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 3 points in Scrabble and 4 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AAL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AAL is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 6 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AAL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AAL scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in AAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,123.
What does AAL mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanyhistorical
A shrub or small tree of tropical Asia whose roots yield a red dye once widely used to colour cotton cloth.
Aal grows across India and Southeast Asia. For centuries dyers boiled its roots to produce the deep red pigment once used in traditional cotton printing, before synthetic dyes made the practice rare.
How AAL is used
Rare; found in older botanical and trade texts, chiefly about South Asia.
- Villagers once dug up aal roots each autumn to prepare the dye.
- The cloth had been coloured with aal, giving it a warm red tone.
- Botanists list aal among the plants once grown purely for dyeing.
- The dyer's workshop still smelled of boiled aal roots.
- Old trade records mention bales of cotton dyed with aal.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of AAL
The 3 tiles of AAL in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with AAL
3 longer words begin with AAL.
Words ending in AAL
15 words end in AAL. Useful as a back hook: play AAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with AAL inside
Showing 24 of 29 words that contain AAL somewhere in the middle. Words that start with AAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in AAL
Common questions about AAL
- Is AAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AAL, where it scores 4 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AAL worth?
- AAL is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AAL mean?
- A shrub or small tree of tropical Asia whose roots yield a red dye once widely used to colour cotton cloth.
- What letters can be added to AAL?
- AAL takes 6 hooks: 5 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of AAL:
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