CREOLE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CREOLE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CREOLE?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CREOLE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CREOLE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
creolesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CREOLE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CREOLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 47,035.
What does CREOLE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A stable, full language that develops when speakers of different languages live in close contact and their simplified contact language is learned by children as a native tongue.
A creole usually begins as a pidgin, a simplified means of communication with no native speakers, and becomes a creole once a community of children grows up speaking it as their first language, gaining the full grammar of any natural language. Well-known examples include Haitian Creole, built mainly from French, and Jamaican Patois, built mainly from English, both shaped further by the African languages their early speakers also spoke. The word also names people of mixed European and other descent in places such as Louisiana and the Caribbean, and a style of richly spiced cooking associated with that same region.
How CREOLE is used
Used mainly in linguistics for this type of language, and more broadly, often capitalized, for the peoples and cuisine of Louisiana and the Caribbean.
- Haitian Creole developed from contact between French colonists and enslaved Africans.
- Linguists study how a pidgin becomes a full creole once children learn it as a first language.
- The restaurant served a spicy creole dish with rice and shrimp.
- Her grandmother traced her creole ancestry back to old New Orleans.
- Many creoles combine the vocabulary of one language with the grammar patterns of another.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CREOLE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CREOLE
1 longer words begin with CREOLE.
Shorter words from the letters in CREOLE
Common questions about CREOLE
- Is CREOLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CREOLE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CREOLE worth?
- CREOLE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CREOLE mean?
- A stable, full language that develops when speakers of different languages live in close contact and their simplified contact language is learned by children as a native tongue.
- What letters can be added to CREOLE?
- CREOLE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CREOLE:
Open CREOLE in the Word Finder