KOALA is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. KOALA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept KOALA?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful KOALA is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KOALA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
koalasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How KOALA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in KOALA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does KOALA mean in Scrabble?
noun
Australian
A tree-dwelling Australian marsupial with thick grey fur, round tufted ears, and a diet made up almost entirely of eucalyptus leaves.
A koala spends most of its life wedged in the fork of a eucalyptus tree, sleeping for long stretches of the day and feeding at night on leaves that are too tough and low in nutrients for most other animals to survive on. Like a kangaroo, a female koala carries her young in a pouch, and the joey later rides clinging to her back once it grows too large for the pouch. Despite its round face and stocky build, a koala is not a bear, a common misunderstanding that persists in casual speech even though the animal is a marsupial rather than a member of the bear family.
How KOALA is used
A common, everyday noun for the Australian animal; often mistakenly called a koala bear in casual speech.
- A koala dozed in the fork of the gum tree all afternoon.
- The zoo's newest koala arrived from a wildlife sanctuary.
- A young koala clung tightly to its mother's back.
- Bushfires destroyed much of the local koala habitat that year.
- Visitors lined up to see the sleeping koala at the reserve.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KOALA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with KOALA
1 longer words begin with KOALA.
Shorter words from the letters in KOALA
Common questions about KOALA
- Is KOALA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts KOALA, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is KOALA worth?
- KOALA is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KOALA mean?
- A tree-dwelling Australian marsupial with thick grey fur, round tufted ears, and a diet made up almost entirely of eucalyptus leaves.
- What letters can be added to KOALA?
- KOALA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of KOALA:
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