JOULE is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. JOULE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept JOULE?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JOULE is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JOULE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How JOULE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in JOULE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 49,015.
What does JOULE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The SI unit of energy, equal to the work done when a force of one newton moves an object one metre in the direction of the force.
The joule is named after James Prescott Joule, a nineteenth-century physicist who studied the relationship between heat, work and mechanical energy. Scientists and engineers use the joule to measure every kind of energy, from the tiny amount released by a falling grain of sand to the output of a power station, and it appears alongside its larger multiples such as the kilojoule on food packaging in many countries. Because the joule is defined from the base units of mass, length and time, it can replace the older calorie in most scientific contexts without any loss of precision.
How JOULE is used
Technical; used in physics, engineering and, as the kilojoule, on nutrition labels in countries that favour SI units.
- One joule is roughly the energy needed to lift a small apple one metre.
- The label listed the energy content in both calories and joules.
- A joule is a small unit, so most everyday quantities of energy run into the thousands of joules.
- The physics problem asked students to convert watts into joules per second.
- Lightning releases billions of joules in a fraction of a second.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JOULE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with JOULE
2 longer words begin with JOULE.
Words ending in JOULE
2 words end in JOULE. Useful as a back hook: play JOULE onto a word already on the board.
Words with JOULE inside
2 words contain JOULE in the middle. Words that start with JOULE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in JOULE
Common questions about JOULE
- Is JOULE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts JOULE, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is JOULE worth?
- JOULE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JOULE mean?
- The SI unit of energy, equal to the work done when a force of one newton moves an object one metre in the direction of the force.
- What letters can be added to JOULE?
- JOULE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of JOULE:
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