DISTIL is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. DISTIL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DISTIL?
| 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 DISTIL is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DISTIL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DISTIL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in DISTIL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 86,231.
What does DISTIL mean in Scrabble?
verb
British
To purify a liquid by heating it until it evaporates, then cooling and collecting the vapor as it condenses.
Distil is the standard British spelling of distill, the American form, and both describe the same process of separating a liquid from its impurities or from a mixture through evaporation and condensation. Beyond its literal use in chemistry and the making of spirits, distil is also used figuratively to mean drawing out the essential meaning or most important part of something, as in distil an argument down to its core idea. The word appears throughout British and Commonwealth writing on science, industry, and everyday figurative speech.
How DISTIL is used
The British spelling, used across the Commonwealth, while distill is standard in American English.
- Workers distil seawater to produce fresh drinking water.
- The report managed to distil months of research into a few pages.
- Whisky makers distil the fermented liquid several times.
- She tried to distil her argument down to one clear sentence.
- Plants distil oils that give perfumes their scent.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DISTIL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DISTIL
20 longer words begin with DISTIL.
Shorter words from the letters in DISTIL
Common questions about DISTIL
- Is DISTIL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DISTIL, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DISTIL worth?
- DISTIL is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DISTIL mean?
- To purify a liquid by heating it until it evaporates, then cooling and collecting the vapor as it condenses.
- What letters can be added to DISTIL?
- DISTIL takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of DISTIL:
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