PHIAL is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PHIAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PHIAL?
| 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 PHIAL is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PHIAL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
phialsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PHIAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PHIAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does PHIAL mean in Scrabble?
noun
British
A small glass bottle used to hold liquids, especially medicine, perfume or a small sample.
A phial is smaller than an ordinary bottle and is generally used for something measured out carefully rather than poured freely, such as a dose of medicine or a sample of scent. The word is closely related to vial, and the two spellings are used for essentially the same object, though phial appears more often in British writing. Phials appear often in older fiction, especially where a character carries poison, a potion or a rare essence in a small stoppered container. The word still turns up in pharmacies and laboratories for small glass containers of liquid.
How PHIAL is used
Somewhat formal or old-fashioned in everyday speech, more common in British English and in writing about medicine or chemistry.
- The chemist handed her a small phial of the prescribed drops.
- A phial of dark liquid sat unlabelled on the shelf.
- He kept the rare perfume in a tiny glass phial.
- The story's villain carried a phial of poison in his coat.
- Each phial in the laboratory held a different test sample.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PHIAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PHIAL
4 longer words begin with PHIAL.
Words ending in PHIAL
1 words end in PHIAL. Useful as a back hook: play PHIAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with PHIAL inside
1 words contain PHIAL in the middle. Words that start with PHIAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PHIAL
Common questions about PHIAL
- Is PHIAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PHIAL, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PHIAL worth?
- PHIAL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PHIAL mean?
- A small glass bottle used to hold liquids, especially medicine, perfume or a small sample.
- What letters can be added to PHIAL?
- PHIAL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PHIAL:
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