EL is a valid Scrabble word — 2 points
Yes. EL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 2 points in Scrabble and 3 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EL?
| 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: 54 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EL is to know. It scores 2 from 2 tiles, takes 17 hooks, and its letters make up 8.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How EL scores
Face value of the 2 tiles in EL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 2 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 103.
What stands out about EL
- EL is one of just 133 words of 2 letters in the four lists we check — a short list worth knowing by heart.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does EL mean in Scrabble?
noun
The name of the letter L; in American use also an elevated railway.
The letter sense came first: el is simply how you say L when you spell a word aloud, and it carried over to any piece shaped like that letter, such as a pipe fitting. The railway sense belongs to Chicago and New York, where riders shortened elevated to el; Chicago now prints it as a capital L in quotation marks.
How EL is used
Takes an article as a letter name — an el, two els — while the railway is always the el.
- The el rattled past the third-floor windows every ten minutes.
- He drew an el where the pipe turned.
- There are two els in the middle of parallel.
- We took the el downtown rather than sit in traffic.
- The plumber cut a short el to get round the beam.
- She spelled it out slowly: double-u, ay, el, el.
- Rain drummed on the el platform while we waited.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EL and 7 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see EL
- El is a god of the older Semitic world, and the name survives inside Michael, Daniel and Israel.
- In Spanish el is the masculine article, and it reaches English inside place names such as El Paso.
Words starting with EL
Showing 24 of 798 words that begin with EL.
Words ending in EL
Showing 24 of 679 words that end in EL. Useful as a back hook: play EL onto a word already on the board.
Words with EL inside
Showing 24 of 11829 words that contain EL somewhere in the middle. Words that start with EL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Common questions about EL
- Is EL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EL, where it scores 3 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EL worth?
- EL is worth 2 points in Scrabble and 3 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EL mean?
- The name of the letter L; in American use also an elevated railway.
- What letters can be added to EL?
- EL takes 17 hooks: 10 in front and 7 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 2 letters of EL:
Open EL in the Word Finder