BULBIL is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BULBIL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BULBIL?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BULBIL is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BULBIL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
bulbilsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BULBIL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BULBIL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 2 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,519 thousand.
What does BULBIL mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A small bulb-like growth that forms on a plant, often where a leaf joins the stem, and can fall off to grow into a new plant.
Tiger lilies and some onions and ferns make bulbils as a way of spreading without seed, and a gardener can pick them off and plant them to raise copies of the parent. The name is a diminutive of bulb, so it simply means a little bulb. A related spelling bulbel exists in word lists, but bulbil is the form botanists use.
How BULBIL is used
Technical; used in botany and gardening books.
- Each bulbil on the tiger lily stem can root in the soil.
- She collected a dozen bulbil growths in autumn.
- A bulbil dropped from the leaf and sprouted by the path.
- Some onions flower and then form a bulbil head instead of seed.
- The fern spreads by a single bulbil at the tip of the frond.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BULBIL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BULBIL
1 longer words begin with BULBIL.
Shorter words from the letters in BULBIL
Common questions about BULBIL
- Is BULBIL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BULBIL, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BULBIL worth?
- BULBIL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BULBIL mean?
- A small bulb-like growth that forms on a plant, often where a leaf joins the stem, and can fall off to grow into a new plant.
- What letters can be added to BULBIL?
- BULBIL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BULBIL:
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