PHYLE is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. PHYLE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PHYLE?
| 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 PHYLE is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PHYLE
No single letter turns PHYLE into another word.
How PHYLE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PHYLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does PHYLE mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A tribal or civic subdivision of citizens in an ancient Greek city-state, used for political and military organisation.
A phyle grouped citizens of a Greek polis into a unit larger than a family but smaller than the whole city, and membership often determined which assembly, jury duty or military regiment a man belonged to. Athens famously reorganised its population into ten such groups under the reforms of Cleisthenes, deliberately mixing regions together to weaken old aristocratic loyalties. Other Greek cities kept their own traditional divisions, each still called a phyle, often named after legendary ancestors or local heroes. Historians studying Greek political structure still use the term phyle because no single English word captures its exact civic and military role.
How PHYLE is used
A historical and technical term from the study of ancient Greek city-states.
- Each Athenian phyle contributed soldiers to a separate regiment.
- Cleisthenes redrew the phyle boundaries to break old family power.
- The inscription lists the names of ten phyle representatives.
- Historians debate how membership in a phyle was originally decided.
- The phyle of a given citizen determined his place in the civic assembly.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PHYLE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PHYLE
6 longer words begin with PHYLE.
Words with PHYLE inside
4 words contain PHYLE in the middle. Words that start with PHYLE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PHYLE
Common questions about PHYLE
- Is PHYLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PHYLE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PHYLE worth?
- PHYLE is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PHYLE mean?
- A tribal or civic subdivision of citizens in an ancient Greek city-state, used for political and military organisation.
- What letters can be added to PHYLE?
- No single letter can be added to PHYLE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PHYLE:
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