CHAL is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. CHAL 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 9 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept CHAL?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHAL is to know. It scores 9 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHAL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CHAL scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CHAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 27,231.
What does CHAL mean in Scrabble?
noun
A man, in Romani speech.
Chal is Romani and reached English by the same route as pal and cushty. Very few Romani words entered English at all, and almost every one came through criminal or fairground slang.
How CHAL is used
Countable: a chal, two chals.
- A chal in Romani is a man and not a boy.
- The word chal came into English through slang.
- Very few Romani words reached English, and chal is one.
- Two chals and a horse fair.
- Pal came into English by the same route as chal.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CHAL
Showing 24 of 125 words that begin with CHAL.
Words ending in CHAL
Showing 24 of 31 words that end in CHAL. Useful as a back hook: play CHAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with CHAL inside
Showing 24 of 61 words that contain CHAL somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CHAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CHAL
Common questions about CHAL
- Is CHAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHAL, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHAL worth?
- CHAL is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHAL mean?
- A man, in Romani speech.
- What letters can be added to CHAL?
- CHAL takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CHAL:
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