MAILL is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. MAILL 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 MAILL?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MAILL is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MAILL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
maillsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MAILL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MAILL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 77,456.
What does MAILL mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotshistoricallegal
A payment of rent or tribute, especially one owed under a Scots lease or feudal arrangement; an old Scots word for rent.
A tenant who owed maill paid it to a landlord under the terms of a lease, much as rent is paid today, and Scottish legal and estate records once used the word constantly in accounts of land and property. The same word forms half of blackmail, since that term originally named an illegal payment demanded for protection, distinguished from ordinary maill paid lawfully under a proper agreement. Unlike the everyday English word mail, meaning letters sent through the post, maill has an entirely separate history rooted in an Old Norse word for a contract or agreement. Today maill survives mainly in older Scottish legal documents, historical writing, and dictionaries of the Scots language rather than in current speech.
How MAILL is used
A historical Scots legal term for rent, encountered chiefly in older estate records and discussions of Scottish land law.
- The tenant paid his maill to the laird every term as the lease required.
- Old estate ledgers recorded the maill owed on each farm in silver coin.
- Historians traced the dispute back to unpaid maill from the previous decade.
- The word blackmail grew out of an illegal, extorted form of maill.
- Court records from the period list the maill due on several properties.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MAILL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MAILL
4 longer words begin with MAILL.
Words with MAILL inside
2 words contain MAILL in the middle. Words that start with MAILL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in MAILL
Common questions about MAILL
- Is MAILL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MAILL, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MAILL worth?
- MAILL is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MAILL mean?
- A payment of rent or tribute, especially one owed under a Scots lease or feudal arrangement; an old Scots word for rent.
- What letters can be added to MAILL?
- MAILL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MAILL:
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