ELL is a valid Scrabble word — 3 points
Yes. ELL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 3 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ELL?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ELL is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 15 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ELL
Front hooks — 14
bellBack hooks — 1
ellsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ELL scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ELL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,246.
What does ELL mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
An old measure of length used for cloth, about forty-five inches in England.
The ell began as the length of a forearm and ended as a legal unit, which is why it differed from country to country: the English ell was about forty-five inches, the Scottish one shorter, the Flemish one shorter still. Anyone reading an old cloth bill has to know which ell the writer meant before the numbers say anything.
How ELL is used
Countable: an ell, two ells. Survives in the proverb about giving an inch and taking an ell.
- The bill lists six ells of linen and no price.
- An English ell and a Flemish ell are not the same length.
- Give him an inch and he will take an ell.
- She measured the cloth by the ell as her mother had.
- Three ells of velvet cost more than the coat that came from it.
- The ell was legal until the metric tables replaced it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ELL and 6 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ELL
21 longer words begin with ELL.
Words ending in ELL
Showing 24 of 151 words that end in ELL. Useful as a back hook: play ELL onto a word already on the board.
Words with ELL inside
Showing 24 of 2675 words that contain ELL somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ELL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ELL
Common questions about ELL
- Is ELL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ELL, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ELL worth?
- ELL is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ELL mean?
- An old measure of length used for cloth, about forty-five inches in England.
- What letters can be added to ELL?
- ELL takes 15 hooks: 14 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ELL:
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