CRENEL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CRENEL 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 CRENEL?
| 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 CRENEL 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 CRENEL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
crenelsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CRENEL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CRENEL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 62,713.
What does CRENEL mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicaltechnical
A notch or gap cut into the top of a fortified wall, especially between two raised merlons, through which defenders could look out or shoot.
Castle and city walls were built with a regular pattern of crenels and taller merlons along the top, together forming what is now called a battlement. Defenders could duck behind a merlon for cover and then step to a crenel to fire an arrow or drop a stone on attackers below. The same root gives the verb to crenellate, meaning to fit a wall with this notched pattern, and the same feature reappears decoratively on garden walls and church towers long after it stopped serving any military purpose.
How CRENEL is used
A specialist term from military architecture and history, used mainly when describing castles, city walls, and other fortifications.
- An archer stepped into the crenel to take aim before ducking back behind the wall.
- The restored castle wall still shows its original pattern of crenels and merlons.
- Masons cut a fresh crenel into the parapet during the repair.
- Rainwater collected in the stone crenel after the storm.
- Historians counted twelve crenels along the surviving section of the wall.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CRENEL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CRENEL
19 longer words begin with CRENEL.
Shorter words from the letters in CRENEL
Common questions about CRENEL
- Is CRENEL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CRENEL, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CRENEL worth?
- CRENEL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CRENEL mean?
- A notch or gap cut into the top of a fortified wall, especially between two raised merlons, through which defenders could look out or shoot.
- What letters can be added to CRENEL?
- CRENEL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CRENEL:
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