AKELA is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. AKELA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AKELA?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AKELA is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AKELA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
akelasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AKELA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AKELA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What stands out about AKELA
- AKELA begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does AKELA mean in Scrabble?
noun
British
In the Scouting movement, the adult leader in charge of a Cub Scout pack, a title borrowed from the leader of the wolf pack in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
Baden-Powell built much of early pack life around Kipling's jungle stories, and the custom of calling a grown-up organiser akela survives from those founding years of the movement. Duties typically include planning games, teaching skills, awarding badges and running the weekly pack meeting, so the role is closer to a teacher or coach than to the wise wolf of the original story. A single pack may have several people sharing the job at once, each still called by the same name rather than by their own, much as head teacher names a post and not a particular person. Few people outside families with a child in Cub Scouts ever come across the term, since its use is almost entirely confined to that one youth organisation.
How AKELA is used
A Scouting term, chiefly British, used within Cub Scout packs for the adult leader in charge, and little known outside that context.
- The new akela organised games for the Cub Scout meeting.
- Children in the pack always addressed their leader as akela.
- She had served as akela of the local pack for five years.
- The akela awarded badges at the end of term.
- Two parents volunteered to become akela for the growing pack.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AKELA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AKELA
1 longer words begin with AKELA.
Words with AKELA inside
2 words contain AKELA in the middle. Words that start with AKELA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in AKELA
Common questions about AKELA
- Is AKELA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AKELA, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AKELA worth?
- AKELA is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AKELA mean?
- In the Scouting movement, the adult leader in charge of a Cub Scout pack, a title borrowed from the leader of the wolf pack in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
- What letters can be added to AKELA?
- AKELA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AKELA:
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