PALEAL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PALEAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PALEAL?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PALEAL is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PALEAL
No single letter turns PALEAL into another word.
How PALEAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PALEAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 229,948.
What stands out about PALEAL
- The same 6 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 PALEAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
botany
Of or relating to the palea, the small chaffy bract that encloses a floret in grasses and related plants.
A paleal structure sits inside the outer bracts of a grass flower and helps enclose the tiny reproductive parts while the seed forms. Botanists use the paleal covering to compare species when the palea itself is too small or delicate to describe without a specific term. The word appears almost only in technical descriptions of grasses and sedges, not in everyday speech.
How PALEAL is used
Technical botanical term, used mainly in descriptions of grass and sedge flower parts rather than in general writing.
- The paleal bract was measured under a hand lens to separate the two similar grass species.
- A paleal ridge along the bract helped the botanist identify the specimen.
- Field guides rarely mention paleal features because they need magnification to see.
- The paper described the paleal tissue in unusual detail for a general audience.
- She noted the paleal covering was slightly hairy on the new variety.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PALEAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PALEAL
The 6 tiles of PALEAL in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in PALEAL
Common questions about PALEAL
- Is PALEAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PALEAL, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PALEAL worth?
- PALEAL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PALEAL mean?
- Of or relating to the palea, the small chaffy bract that encloses a floret in grasses and related plants.
- What letters can be added to PALEAL?
- No single letter can be added to PALEAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PALEAL:
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