ARLE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 4 points
It depends on the list you play by. ARLE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 4 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ARLE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ARLE is to know. It scores 4 from 4 tiles, takes 6 hooks, and its letters make up 7.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARLE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ARLE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in ARLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,513.
What stands out about ARLE
- The same 4 tiles also spell 6 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 ARLE mean in Scrabble?
verb
Scotsdialect
To pay a small sum of earnest money to seal a bargain or to hire a worker.
In older Scottish custom, a farmer would arle a new servant by handing over a coin at the hiring fair, and once accepted, the money bound both sides to the agreement. There is no single modern English word for this specific act, since a down payment and a hiring wage cover only part of the same idea.
How ARLE is used
Scots dialect; found in older accounts of hiring fairs and markets.
- The farmer would arle a likely-looking lad with a shilling.
- Once she took the coin to arle the deal, she could not back out.
- It was custom to arle new servants at the spring fair.
- He tried to arle the ploughman before a rival farmer could.
- They shook hands after the trader agreed to arle the sale.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARLE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ARLE
The 4 tiles of ARLE in a different order — 6 found.
Words starting with ARLE
2 longer words begin with ARLE.
Words ending in ARLE
5 words end in ARLE. Useful as a back hook: play ARLE onto a word already on the board.
Words with ARLE inside
Showing 24 of 94 words that contain ARLE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ARLE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ARLE
Common questions about ARLE
- Is ARLE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ARLE is not in it.
- How many points is ARLE worth?
- ARLE is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARLE mean?
- To pay a small sum of earnest money to seal a bargain or to hire a worker.
- What letters can be added to ARLE?
- ARLE takes 6 hooks: 4 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of ARLE:
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