COULEE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. COULEE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COULEE?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COULEE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COULEE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
couleesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COULEE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in COULEE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 70,552.
What does COULEE mean in Scrabble?
noun
North American
A deep, dry ravine or gully cut into open grassland, especially in the western United States and Canada.
A coulee forms where seasonal runoff has carved a steep-sided channel through prairie or plains country, and the bottom often stays dry for most of the year even though the walls show clear signs of past water flow. Settlers and ranchers on the American and Canadian plains used coulee for these natural trenches long before formal geological terms took hold. In parts of France, the same word instead names a short flow of thick lava from a volcano, a very different feature that borrowed the identical French root.
How COULEE is used
Chiefly North American for a dry ravine; also used in geology for a lava flow.
- Cattle sheltered from the wind in the bottom of the coulee.
- The road dipped sharply as it crossed a wide coulee.
- Rainwater rushed through the coulee after the storm.
- Hunters tracked the deer along the edge of the coulee.
- A narrow coulee split the wheat field in two.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COULEE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COULEE
1 longer words begin with COULEE.
Shorter words from the letters in COULEE
Common questions about COULEE
- Is COULEE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COULEE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COULEE worth?
- COULEE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COULEE mean?
- A deep, dry ravine or gully cut into open grassland, especially in the western United States and Canada.
- What letters can be added to COULEE?
- COULEE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of COULEE:
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