ARIEL is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. ARIEL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ARIEL?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ARIEL is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 8.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARIEL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
arielsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ARIEL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ARIEL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,227.
What does ARIEL mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A small, pale gazelle native to Arabia and parts of North Africa, sometimes named the ariel gazelle.
The ariel is a slender gazelle adapted to dry, semi-desert country, and older natural history writing sometimes treats the name as interchangeable with the closely related dorcas gazelle. This everyday, lowercase sense naming an animal is separate from the proper name Ariel used for Shakespeare's spirit in The Tempest or for a cartoon mermaid. Field guides to Arabian wildlife still list the ariel among the region's native gazelles.
How ARIEL is used
A specialised zoological name, used in natural history writing about Arabian and North African wildlife rather than in everyday speech.
- A herd of ariels grazed near the desert oasis.
- The field guide pictured an ariel beside a common gazelle.
- Hunters once prized the ariel for its speed.
- The reserve protects a small population of ariels.
- Naturalists distinguished the ariel from its larger cousins by its size.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARIEL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ARIEL
The 5 tiles of ARIEL in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ARIEL
1 longer words begin with ARIEL.
Shorter words from the letters in ARIEL
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Common questions about ARIEL
- Is ARIEL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ARIEL, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ARIEL worth?
- ARIEL is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARIEL mean?
- A small, pale gazelle native to Arabia and parts of North Africa, sometimes named the ariel gazelle.
- What letters can be added to ARIEL?
- ARIEL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ARIEL:
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