BILED is valid in Collins, not in North America — 8 points
It depends on the list you play by. BILED 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 8 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept BILED?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BILED is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BILED
No single letter turns BILED into another word.
How BILED scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BILED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does BILED mean in Scrabble?
verb
dialectregional
To boil, as spelled biled in dialect writing that renders the past tense of boiled in regional speech.
Biled reflects how boiled sounds in some regional accents, especially in older written dialogue meant to capture rural or Southern speech. Writers use the spelling to give a character an authentic, unpolished voice rather than to introduce a different meaning.
How BILED is used
Used mainly in dialect dialogue and folk speech rather than standard writing.
- She biled the eggs for exactly ten minutes, just as her mother had shown her.
- The old cook always biled the greens with a bit of salt pork.
- He said the water had biled dry while he was not watching.
- They biled the coffee over an open fire each morning on the trail.
- Grandma biled a fresh batch of jam every August.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BILED and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BILED
The 5 tiles of BILED in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in BILED
3 words end in BILED. Useful as a back hook: play BILED onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in BILED
Common questions about BILED
- Is BILED valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BILED is not in it.
- How many points is BILED worth?
- BILED is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BILED mean?
- To boil, as spelled biled in dialect writing that renders the past tense of boiled in regional speech.
- What letters can be added to BILED?
- No single letter can be added to BILED to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BILED:
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