GUNSEL is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. GUNSEL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GUNSEL?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GUNSEL is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GUNSEL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
gunselsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GUNSEL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in GUNSEL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 86,231.
What does GUNSEL mean in Scrabble?
noun
slang
A minor criminal who carries a gun, especially one regarded as young or inexperienced; a gunman.
Gunsel began as underworld and prison slang for a naive young man kept as a companion by an older, more experienced criminal, a sense with no connection to firearms at all. Detective writers such as Dashiell Hammett used the word in stories where editors, missing its original meaning, assumed it simply meant gunman, and that mistaken reading gradually became the word's ordinary meaning in print. Today gunsel survives mainly in hardboiled crime fiction and film, where it labels a low-level armed criminal rather than a mastermind.
How GUNSEL is used
A piece of American slang, associated strongly with hardboiled detective fiction and gangster films rather than everyday speech.
- The detective warned the young gunsel to drop his weapon.
- A nervous gunsel guarded the door of the back room.
- The film cast him as a small-time gunsel working for the boss.
- Police picked up the gunsel a block from the robbery.
- In the novel, the gunsel turns out to be more dangerous than he looks.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GUNSEL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of GUNSEL
The 6 tiles of GUNSEL in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with GUNSEL
1 longer words begin with GUNSEL.
Shorter words from the letters in GUNSEL
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Common questions about GUNSEL
- Is GUNSEL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GUNSEL, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GUNSEL worth?
- GUNSEL is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GUNSEL mean?
- A minor criminal who carries a gun, especially one regarded as young or inexperienced; a gunman.
- What letters can be added to GUNSEL?
- GUNSEL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of GUNSEL:
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