LOCAL is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. LOCAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LOCAL?
| 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 LOCAL is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LOCAL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LOCAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LOCAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 2 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What stands out about LOCAL
- LOCAL begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does LOCAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Belonging to, existing in, or relating to a particular place, area, or immediate neighborhood, rather than to a wider region.
A local newspaper covers events within a single town or district rather than national or international news, and a local shop serves the immediate neighborhood rather than a whole country. In medicine, doctors use local to describe an anesthetic that numbs only a specific part of the body instead of putting the whole patient to sleep. Computing borrowed the same idea, so a local variable exists only within one part of a program rather than throughout it. Across all these uses, local always narrows attention down to one particular place or limited area.
How LOCAL is used
A very common adjective across everyday speech, journalism, medicine, and technical fields, always contrasting something narrow and nearby with something wider or more general.
- She shopped at the local bakery every Saturday morning.
- The doctor used a local anesthetic before stitching the cut.
- Local news covered the flooding downtown in detail.
- The program stores the value in a local variable that other functions cannot see.
- A local election drew far fewer voters than the national one.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LOCAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LOCAL
Showing 24 of 36 words that begin with LOCAL.
Words ending in LOCAL
6 words end in LOCAL. Useful as a back hook: play LOCAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with LOCAL inside
24 words contain LOCAL in the middle. Words that start with LOCAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LOCAL
Common questions about LOCAL
- Is LOCAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LOCAL, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LOCAL worth?
- LOCAL is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LOCAL mean?
- Belonging to, existing in, or relating to a particular place, area, or immediate neighborhood, rather than to a wider region.
- What letters can be added to LOCAL?
- LOCAL takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LOCAL:
Open LOCAL in the Word Finder