COLE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. COLE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COLE?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COLE is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COLE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COLE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in COLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,106.
What does COLE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
An old name for a plant of the cabbage family, especially the kind used to make coleslaw.
Cole once served as the everyday word for cabbage and its close relatives, before cabbage largely took its place in ordinary speech; the term survives today mainly hidden inside compounds such as coleslaw and colewort. Botanists and old recipes still use cole for these leafy brassicas.
How COLE is used
Archaic outside compound words; met mainly in older texts, old recipes and terms like coleslaw.
- The old cookbook called for shredded cole rather than cabbage.
- Farmers once grew cole in these fields for winter fodder.
- The recipe for coleslaw takes its name from cole.
- Cole was the common term for cabbage in earlier centuries.
- The garden still grows a hardy variety of cole.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COLE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COLE
Showing 24 of 46 words that begin with COLE.
Words ending in COLE
12 words end in COLE. Useful as a back hook: play COLE onto a word already on the board.
Words with COLE inside
Showing 24 of 39 words that contain COLE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with COLE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in COLE
Common questions about COLE
- Is COLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COLE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COLE worth?
- COLE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COLE mean?
- An old name for a plant of the cabbage family, especially the kind used to make coleslaw.
- What letters can be added to COLE?
- COLE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of COLE:
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