CANAL is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. CANAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CANAL?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CANAL is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CANAL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
canalsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CANAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CANAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does CANAL mean in Scrabble?
noun
An artificial waterway built to allow boats to travel inland or to carry water for irrigation, drainage, or drinking supply.
Engineers dig a canal along a controlled route, sometimes adding locks to raise or lower boats between different water levels, connecting rivers, lakes, or seas that are not naturally linked. Beyond transportation, the same word describes a narrow tube or passage inside a living body, such as the ear canal, since both senses share the idea of a channel carrying something along its length.
How CANAL is used
Used both for engineered waterways and, in anatomy, for tube-like passages inside the body.
- Cargo ships passed slowly through the narrow canal.
- Farmers relied on the canal to irrigate their fields each summer.
- The doctor examined the fluid buildup in his ear canal.
- Workers dug the canal by hand over several difficult years.
- Tourists took a boat ride along the historic city canal.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CANAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CANAL
Showing 24 of 26 words that begin with CANAL.
Words ending in CANAL
3 words end in CANAL. Useful as a back hook: play CANAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with CANAL inside
15 words contain CANAL in the middle. Words that start with CANAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CANAL
Common questions about CANAL
- Is CANAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CANAL, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CANAL worth?
- CANAL is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CANAL mean?
- An artificial waterway built to allow boats to travel inland or to carry water for irrigation, drainage, or drinking supply.
- What letters can be added to CANAL?
- CANAL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CANAL:
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