GAL is a valid Scrabble word — 4 points
Yes. GAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GAL?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GAL is to know. It scores 4 from 3 tiles, takes 6 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GAL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GAL scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in GAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,497.
What does GAL mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
A girl or young woman.
Gal is a spelling of how girl sounds in certain accents, and it became a word in its own right in America during the nineteenth century. A separate gal is a unit of acceleration, named after Galileo and unrelated to any of this.
How GAL is used
Countable: a gal, two gals. Informal.
- A gal from the next county who married into the family.
- The word gal is a spelling of an accent.
- Two gals in the photograph and nobody knows which is which.
- The unit called a gal is named after Galileo.
- Gal became a separate word in nineteenth-century America.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of GAL
The 3 tiles of GAL in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with GAL
Showing 24 of 406 words that begin with GAL.
Words ending in GAL
Showing 24 of 63 words that end in GAL. Useful as a back hook: play GAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with GAL inside
Showing 24 of 323 words that contain GAL somewhere in the middle. Words that start with GAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in GAL
Common questions about GAL
- Is GAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GAL, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GAL worth?
- GAL is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GAL mean?
- A girl or young woman.
- What letters can be added to GAL?
- GAL takes 6 hooks: 2 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of GAL:
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