HAYLE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. HAYLE 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept HAYLE?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HAYLE is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HAYLE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
haylesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HAYLE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HAYLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does HAYLE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterary
An old literary word for welfare or well-being, found in the poetry of Spenser.
Hayle names a general sense of prosperity and safety belonging to a person or a whole land, close to the modern phrase for the good of someone. The spelling is tied to Edmund Spenser's poetry, where archaic forms of ordinary words were common, and it did not carry on into standard modern English outside quotation and word lists.
How HAYLE is used
Archaic literary term, encountered mainly in quoted verse rather than modern prose.
- The poet prayed for the hayle of the whole kingdom.
- Old commentary glosses hayle in that stanza as welfare.
- He wished the travelers hayle on their long journey home.
- The line ties the shepherd's hayle to the safety of his flock.
- Scholars still argue over how widely hayle was used beyond Spenser.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HAYLE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HAYLE
1 longer words begin with HAYLE.
Shorter words from the letters in HAYLE
Common questions about HAYLE
- Is HAYLE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and HAYLE is not in it.
- How many points is HAYLE worth?
- HAYLE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HAYLE mean?
- An old literary word for welfare or well-being, found in the poetry of Spenser.
- What letters can be added to HAYLE?
- HAYLE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HAYLE:
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