ANNAL is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. ANNAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANNAL?
| 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 ANNAL is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANNAL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
annalsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ANNAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ANNAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 34,855.
What does ANNAL mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A written account covering a single year, forming one entry within a longer year-by-year chronicle.
An annal deals with just one year, unlike the plural annals, which usually names the whole ongoing chronicle of an institution or a nation. Monks and court clerks in earlier centuries kept such entries so that later readers could follow events year by year, producing some of the earliest surviving historical records. The singular annal is far rarer today than the everyday plural and turns up mostly when historians discuss old chronicles.
How ANNAL is used
Literary and somewhat formal; the singular annal is far less common than the everyday plural annals.
- The monastery kept an annal for each passing year.
- One annal recorded a harsh winter and failed harvest.
- Historians study each annal to date the events precisely.
- The oldest annal in the collection dates from the tenth century.
- A single annal rarely gives more than a few lines per event.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANNAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ANNAL
12 longer words begin with ANNAL.
Shorter words from the letters in ANNAL
Common questions about ANNAL
- Is ANNAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANNAL, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANNAL worth?
- ANNAL is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANNAL mean?
- A written account covering a single year, forming one entry within a longer year-by-year chronicle.
- What letters can be added to ANNAL?
- ANNAL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ANNAL:
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