MOIL is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. MOIL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MOIL?
| 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 MOIL is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MOIL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MOIL scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in MOIL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,808.
What stands out about MOIL
- The same 4 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does MOIL mean in Scrabble?
verb
literary
To work hard and wearily at unpleasant or exhausting labour; to toil.
Moil began as a term for wallowing in mud before it settled into its modern sense of grinding effort, and English kept moil and its twin toil moving together in one phrase because they reinforce rather than duplicate each other. Novelists and poets reach for moil when plain work feels too flat a word for what the scene needs, giving weary, grinding tasks a slightly old-fashioned weight.
How MOIL is used
Literary and rather old-fashioned; mainly survives in the set phrase toil and moil.
- The miners had to moil underground for twelve hours a day.
- She would moil over the accounts until well past midnight.
- They toil and moil on the farm from dawn until dusk.
- He moiled away at the translation for weeks without complaint.
- The washerwomen moiled over the tubs in the cold yard.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MOIL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MOIL
The 4 tiles of MOIL in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with MOIL
8 longer words begin with MOIL.
Words ending in MOIL
2 words end in MOIL. Useful as a back hook: play MOIL onto a word already on the board.
Words with MOIL inside
10 words contain MOIL in the middle. Words that start with MOIL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in MOIL
Common questions about MOIL
- Is MOIL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MOIL, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MOIL worth?
- MOIL is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MOIL mean?
- To work hard and wearily at unpleasant or exhausting labour; to toil.
- What letters can be added to MOIL?
- MOIL takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of MOIL:
Open MOIL in the Word Finder