ANILE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. ANILE 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 ANILE?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANILE is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 8.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANILE
No single letter turns ANILE into another word.
How ANILE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ANILE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,227.
What stands out about ANILE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 4 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ANILE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literaryrare
Resembling or showing the feebleness of mind sometimes pictured in a weak old woman.
Anile is built on the Latin anus, an old woman, and was coined to describe failing memory or feeble judgment pictured specifically as an old woman's weakness. Writers used it as the sharper, gendered counterpart to senile, a word that now covers both sexes without the same edge. Because the term carries an old-fashioned and rather unkind tone, it survives mostly in older novels and essays rather than in modern speech.
How ANILE is used
Rare and literary, found chiefly in older writing that describes feeble old age and seldom used in ordinary conversation today.
- The old woman gave an anile giggle at the joke.
- His memory had grown anile, confused and forgetful.
- The critic called the plot anile and rambling.
- Her anile chatter wandered from topic to topic.
- The character was written as anile long before her time.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANILE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ANILE
The 5 tiles of ANILE in a different order — 4 found.
Words ending in ANILE
2 words end in ANILE. Useful as a back hook: play ANILE onto a word already on the board.
Words with ANILE inside
2 words contain ANILE in the middle. Words that start with ANILE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ANILE
Common questions about ANILE
- Is ANILE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANILE, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANILE worth?
- ANILE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANILE mean?
- Resembling or showing the feebleness of mind sometimes pictured in a weak old woman.
- What letters can be added to ANILE?
- No single letter can be added to ANILE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ANILE:
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