FEMAL is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. FEMAL is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept FEMAL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FEMAL is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FEMAL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FEMAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FEMAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What stands out about FEMAL
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 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 FEMAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicliterary
Effeminate; having qualities regarded as typical of women, said of a man as an insult.
Femal is an old spelling found in Milton, where it could work as a noun meaning simply a female or as an adjective describing a man thought unmanly. The two senses drifted apart as English spelling settled, with female taking the neutral noun sense and femal fading into a term of reproach. Modern writers no longer use the word in either sense.
How FEMAL is used
Archaic; found in older poetry rather than in current writing.
- Milton used femal where a modern poet would write female or effeminate.
- The critic called the knight femal for avoiding the fight.
- A femal manner in a soldier read as an insult in that period.
- The noun sense of femal has been replaced entirely by female.
- Femal appears in seventeenth-century verse and almost nowhere after it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FEMAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of FEMAL
The 5 tiles of FEMAL in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with FEMAL
7 longer words begin with FEMAL.
Words with FEMAL inside
5 words contain FEMAL in the middle. Words that start with FEMAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in FEMAL
Common questions about FEMAL
- Is FEMAL valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and FEMAL is not in it.
- How many points is FEMAL worth?
- FEMAL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FEMAL mean?
- Effeminate; having qualities regarded as typical of women, said of a man as an insult.
- What letters can be added to FEMAL?
- FEMAL takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FEMAL:
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