CARREL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CARREL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CARREL?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CARREL is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CARREL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CARREL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CARREL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 91,979.
What does CARREL mean in Scrabble?
noun
A small individual desk or enclosed cubicle in a library, used by a single reader for quiet, private study.
A carrel gives one reader a small private space inside a larger library, often built as a shallow booth against a wall or window with a chair and a flat surface for books and notes. Colleges and research libraries assign a carrel to a student or scholar working on a long project, letting them leave materials out between sessions instead of carrying everything home each day. The word also names the shallow recess of a medieval cloister where a monk once sat to read or copy manuscripts, the older sense the library carrel grew from. A related spelling, carrell, is used for exactly the same thing.
How CARREL is used
Common in academic and library contexts; students often speak of booking or reserving a carrel.
- She reserved a quiet carrel on the library's top floor for exam week.
- Every carrel in the reading room had its own small lamp and outlet.
- The graduate student left his books stacked in his assigned carrel overnight.
- Old photographs show monks bent over manuscripts in a cloister carrel.
- He preferred a corner carrel far from the noisy entrance.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CARREL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CARREL
3 longer words begin with CARREL.
Shorter words from the letters in CARREL
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Common questions about CARREL
- Is CARREL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CARREL, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CARREL worth?
- CARREL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CARREL mean?
- A small individual desk or enclosed cubicle in a library, used by a single reader for quiet, private study.
- What letters can be added to CARREL?
- CARREL takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CARREL:
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