ENTOIL is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. ENTOIL 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 ENTOIL?
| 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 ENTOIL is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ENTOIL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
entoilsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ENTOIL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ENTOIL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,581.
What does ENTOIL mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicrare
To trap or entangle something, as if catching it in a net.
Entoil comes from toil in its old sense of a net or snare, so to entoil someone or something means to wrap it up in that net, whether literally or by trickery. Hunting writers once used the word for game caught in nets or traps laid across a path. Later writers extended entoil figuratively, so that a person could be entoiled by debt, temptation, or a clever scheme rather than by rope or cord. The verb is old-fashioned and now shows up mainly in historical or deliberately archaic prose.
How ENTOIL is used
Archaic and rare; met chiefly in older or deliberately old-fashioned writing about snares, traps, or figurative entrapment.
- The hunters set nets to entoil the deer along its usual path.
- Debt can entoil a family for years before it is paid off.
- The old romance tells how flattery can entoil an honest man.
- A spider spins silk to entoil any insect that touches its web.
- He felt the scheme slowly begin to entoil him.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ENTOIL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ENTOIL
The 6 tiles of ENTOIL in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ENTOIL
5 longer words begin with ENTOIL.
Shorter words from the letters in ENTOIL
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Common questions about ENTOIL
- Is ENTOIL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ENTOIL, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ENTOIL worth?
- ENTOIL is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ENTOIL mean?
- To trap or entangle something, as if catching it in a net.
- What letters can be added to ENTOIL?
- ENTOIL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ENTOIL:
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