GOOL is valid in Collins, not in North America — 5 points
It depends on the list you play by. GOOL 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 5 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept GOOL?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GOOL is to know. It scores 5 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GOOL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GOOL scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in GOOL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 11,670.
What does GOOL mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scots
The corn marigold, a yellow-flowered weed of grain fields, also spelled gule.
Gool names a bright yellow wildflower that once grew commonly among cereal crops in parts of Scotland and northern England, its abundance sometimes treated as a nuisance to farmers. The word survives mainly in older dialect glossaries and in word lists rather than in everyday speech.
How GOOL is used
Rare outside dialect or historical botanical writing; unlikely to be recognised by most modern speakers.
- The field was thick with gool among the ripening barley.
- Farmers once pulled gool by hand to protect the grain.
- The old glossary listed gool as another name for the corn marigold.
- Yellow patches of gool showed where the soil had been left fallow.
- He remembered his grandmother calling the weed gool.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GOOL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of GOOL
The 4 tiles of GOOL in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with GOOL
8 longer words begin with GOOL.
Words ending in GOOL
1 words end in GOOL. Useful as a back hook: play GOOL onto a word already on the board.
Words with GOOL inside
1 words contain GOOL in the middle. Words that start with GOOL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in GOOL
Common questions about GOOL
- Is GOOL valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and GOOL is not in it.
- How many points is GOOL worth?
- GOOL is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GOOL mean?
- The corn marigold, a yellow-flowered weed of grain fields, also spelled gule.
- What letters can be added to GOOL?
- GOOL takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of GOOL:
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