CHIEL is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CHIEL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CHIEL?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHIEL is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHIEL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CHIEL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CHIEL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What stands out about CHIEL
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CHIEL mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scots
A young man or fellow, especially in Scots usage.
Chiel is a Scots word for a young man, close in meaning to lad or fellow, and it appears often in older Scots poetry and song, most famously in the work of Robert Burns. The word can carry warmth or mild teasing depending on context, describing anyone from a promising young worker to a stranger passing through a village. An alternative spelling, chield, appears in some of the same older texts and carries exactly the same meaning. Outside Scotland the word is rarely used in everyday conversation, surviving mainly through literature and dialect writing.
How CHIEL is used
Chiefly Scots and literary; encountered mostly in Scots poetry, song, and dialect writing rather than modern everyday speech.
- The old ballad describes a young chiel setting off to sea.
- They welcomed the chiel who had come looking for work.
- Burns often wrote of a canny chiel outwitting his betters.
- The farmer hired a sturdy chiel for the harvest.
- She remembered him as a cheerful chiel from her village.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHIEL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CHIEL
The 5 tiles of CHIEL in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with CHIEL
3 longer words begin with CHIEL.
Shorter words from the letters in CHIEL
Common questions about CHIEL
- Is CHIEL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHIEL, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHIEL worth?
- CHIEL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHIEL mean?
- A young man or fellow, especially in Scots usage.
- What letters can be added to CHIEL?
- CHIEL takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CHIEL:
Open CHIEL in the Word Finder