FERAL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. FERAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FERAL?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FERAL is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FERAL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
feralsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FERAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FERAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What stands out about FERAL
- 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 FERAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Wild, especially describing a domesticated animal or its descendants that now live untamed and independent of humans.
Feral describes cats, pigs, horses and other animals that once depended on people but now live and breed in the wild, often forming self-sustaining colonies far from any farm or household. The word differs from wild in stressing the animal's history of domestication before its return to a natural state. By extension, feral is also used more loosely and figuratively for a person or a place, such as a feral child or a feral housing estate, to suggest an untamed, lawless quality.
How FERAL is used
Common in writing about wildlife and animal behaviour, and used more loosely and sometimes disapprovingly to describe people or places seen as unruly.
- A colony of feral cats lives behind the old warehouse.
- Feral pigs have damaged crops across the valley.
- The island's feral goats descend from animals left by sailors centuries ago.
- Reporters described the estate as feral, with no visible authority at all.
- Wildlife groups trap and neuter feral cats rather than remove them.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FERAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of FERAL
The 5 tiles of FERAL in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with FERAL
3 longer words begin with FERAL.
Words ending in FERAL
4 words end in FERAL. Useful as a back hook: play FERAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with FERAL inside
1 words contain FERAL in the middle. Words that start with FERAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in FERAL
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Common questions about FERAL
- Is FERAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FERAL, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FERAL worth?
- FERAL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FERAL mean?
- Wild, especially describing a domesticated animal or its descendants that now live untamed and independent of humans.
- What letters can be added to FERAL?
- FERAL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FERAL:
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