ANELE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. ANELE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANELE?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANELE is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 8.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANELE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ANELE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ANELE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,281.
What does ANELE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To anoint someone with holy oil, especially to give the last rites to a dying person.
Anele belongs to the old Christian ritual of anointing a dying person with consecrated oil as part of the last rites, a practice still carried out today though usually called extreme unction or the anointing of the sick rather than described with this old verb. The word appears famously in Shakespeare's Hamlet, where the ghost complains of dying unaneled, meaning without having received this final anointing. Because the underlying religious practice continues, anele is less a description of a vanished custom than an old-fashioned name for a rite people now call by other terms. Modern readers mostly meet anele in Shakespeare, older religious writing or historical fiction rather than in current religious language.
How ANELE is used
An archaic term, encountered mainly in Shakespeare, older religious writing and historical fiction rather than in current religious practice.
- The priest was summoned at once to anele the dying knight.
- Shakespeare's ghost complains that no priest came to anele him before death.
- Medieval custom required a priest to anele the sick before they died.
- The old chronicle describes how a monk would anele the wounded soldiers.
- The dying king begged the bishop to anele him without delay.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANELE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ANELE
2 longer words begin with ANELE.
Words with ANELE inside
8 words contain ANELE in the middle. Words that start with ANELE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ANELE
Common questions about ANELE
- Is ANELE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANELE, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANELE worth?
- ANELE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANELE mean?
- To anoint someone with holy oil, especially to give the last rites to a dying person.
- What letters can be added to ANELE?
- ANELE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ANELE:
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