COALA is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. COALA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COALA?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COALA is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COALA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
coalasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COALA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in COALA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does COALA mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A variant spelling of koala, the tree-dwelling Australian marsupial.
Coala turns up in nineteenth-century travel accounts and natural history books from the period when English writers were still settling on a fixed way to render Aboriginal Australian words in Roman letters. Dictionaries that track older spellings keep coala on record for exactly that reason, even though nobody writes it that way in current text. The slow-moving grey animal it names spends most of the day resting in a fork of a gum tree and rarely comes down to the ground.
How COALA is used
Countable noun; the standard modern spelling is koala.
- Early naturalists sometimes wrote coala for the tree-climbing marsupial.
- The old journal used coala where a modern text would print koala.
- A coala clings to eucalyptus branches for most of the day.
- The traveler sketched a coala resting in a gum tree.
- The museum label preserved the antique spelling coala.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COALA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COALA
1 longer words begin with COALA.
Shorter words from the letters in COALA
Common questions about COALA
- Is COALA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COALA, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COALA worth?
- COALA is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COALA mean?
- A variant spelling of koala, the tree-dwelling Australian marsupial.
- What letters can be added to COALA?
- COALA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of COALA:
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