ILLS is a valid Scrabble word — 4 points
Yes. ILLS 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 ILLS?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ILLS is to know. It scores 4 from 4 tiles, takes 19 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ILLS
Front hooks — 19
billsBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How ILLS scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in ILLS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 18,154.
What does ILLS mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
Troubles, misfortunes, or evils, especially the difficulties affecting a society or a person.
Ills refers to the harms, hardships, or problems that affect people or society, as in phrases like the ills of the world. It is mostly used in the plural to speak broadly about many troubles at once rather than about one single ill.
How ILLS is used
Common in formal or literary writing about social or personal hardship, as in cure the ills of society.
- The reformer hoped to cure the ills of the city.
- Poverty was blamed for many of the ills in the region.
- The speech listed the ills facing modern farmers.
- She wrote about the ills of war in her journal.
- Doctors cannot fix every one of the ills that trouble a household.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ILLS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ILLS
The 4 tiles of ILLS in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in ILLS
Showing 24 of 157 words that end in ILLS. Useful as a back hook: play ILLS onto a word already on the board.
Words with ILLS inside
22 words contain ILLS in the middle. Words that start with ILLS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ILLS
Common questions about ILLS
- Is ILLS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ILLS, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ILLS worth?
- ILLS is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ILLS mean?
- Troubles, misfortunes, or evils, especially the difficulties affecting a society or a person.
- What letters can be added to ILLS?
- ILLS takes 19 hooks: 19 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of ILLS:
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