PILULE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PILULE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PILULE?
| 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 PILULE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PILULE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
pilulesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PILULE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PILULE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 229,948.
What does PILULE mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
A very small pill, especially one containing medicine.
Pilule is simply an older, more formal name for what most speakers now just call a pill, and it survives mainly in pharmacy and in homeopathic dosing, where remedies are measured out as tiny pilules rather than full-sized tablets. The word traces to the Latin pilula, a diminutive of pila, meaning a ball. Older medical writing favoured pilule where modern writing would simply say pill.
How PILULE is used
Somewhat formal or old-fashioned; still current in homeopathy and pharmacy.
- The homeopath measured out three tiny pilules under the tongue.
- Each pilule held barely a grain of the compound.
- Older prescriptions describe dosing by the pilule rather than the tablet.
- A box of sugar pilules sat on the pharmacist's shelf.
- The remedy came as a small white pilule wrapped in paper.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PILULE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PILULE
1 longer words begin with PILULE.
Shorter words from the letters in PILULE
Common questions about PILULE
- Is PILULE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PILULE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PILULE worth?
- PILULE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PILULE mean?
- A very small pill, especially one containing medicine.
- What letters can be added to PILULE?
- PILULE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PILULE:
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