ENISLE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. ENISLE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ENISLE?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ENISLE is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ENISLE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ENISLE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ENISLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 20,904.
What stands out about ENISLE
- ENISLE begins and ends with the same letter.
- The same 6 tiles also spell 4 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ENISLE mean in Scrabble?
verb
literaryarchaic
To make into an island, or to isolate someone or something as if surrounded by water on every side.
Enisle joins the prefix en-, meaning to put into a state, with isle, so the verb literally means to turn something into an island. Poets borrowed the word mainly for figurative isolation, describing a person cut off from others by grief, distance, or circumstance as if enisled on a lonely shore. Victorian poets used enisle this way, and the word still carries that reflective, slightly melancholy tone whenever it appears. Outside poetry and older prose, writers now simply say isolate or cut off instead.
How ENISLE is used
Literary and archaic; met in poetry and older prose about emotional or physical isolation, not in ordinary speech.
- The poem describes a soul enisled by silent grief.
- Floodwater seemed to enisle the farmhouse for a week.
- Old age can enisle a person from friends who have died.
- The novel's hero feels enisled among strangers in the city.
- Victorian verse often uses enisle for lonely isolation.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ENISLE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ENISLE
The 6 tiles of ENISLE in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with ENISLE
2 longer words begin with ENISLE.
Shorter words from the letters in ENISLE
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Common questions about ENISLE
- Is ENISLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ENISLE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ENISLE worth?
- ENISLE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ENISLE mean?
- To make into an island, or to isolate someone or something as if surrounded by water on every side.
- What letters can be added to ENISLE?
- ENISLE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ENISLE:
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