HORAL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. HORAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HORAL?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HORAL is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HORAL
Front hooks — 1
choralBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How HORAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HORAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does HORAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rarearchaic
Of or belonging to a single hour, or occurring and repeated on an hourly schedule.
Horal is built from the Latin hora, meaning hour, following the same pattern as diurnal from dies or annual from annus, though it never became nearly as common as those related words. Older scientific and reference writing occasionally used horal to describe readings, observations, or events recorded at regular hourly intervals, such as horal temperature measurements taken throughout a day. Modern writers almost always reach for hourly instead, so horal now survives mainly in older dictionaries, antiquarian texts, and specialist historical writing rather than in current use. Its rarity makes it a useful word for readers curious about the less common Latin-derived vocabulary that English absorbed alongside more familiar everyday terms.
How HORAL is used
A rare, largely archaic adjective, now almost entirely replaced by hourly in ordinary writing.
- The old ledger recorded horal readings of the barometer.
- A horal chime once marked the passing of each hour in the tower.
- The manuscript used horal instead of the more familiar hourly.
- Researchers noted the horal fluctuation in temperature across the day.
- Few modern readers recognize the horal sense of the word without a dictionary.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HORAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in HORAL
7 words end in HORAL. Useful as a back hook: play HORAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with HORAL inside
8 words contain HORAL in the middle. Words that start with HORAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HORAL
Common questions about HORAL
- Is HORAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HORAL, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HORAL worth?
- HORAL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HORAL mean?
- Of or belonging to a single hour, or occurring and repeated on an hourly schedule.
- What letters can be added to HORAL?
- HORAL takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HORAL:
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