RADDLE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. RADDLE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RADDLE?
| 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 RADDLE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RADDLE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RADDLE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in RADDLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 2 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 76,649.
What stands out about RADDLE
- 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 RADDLE mean in Scrabble?
noun
Britishregional
A block or lump of red ochre pigment that shepherds rub onto a ram's chest so that it marks each ewe he mates with.
Raddle lets a shepherd walk through the flock afterward and see at a glance, from the streak of colour left on a ewe's back, which animals have already been served. Farmers sometimes change the colour of raddle partway through the breeding season, so the marks also record roughly when each ewe is due to lamb. An older, related sense of raddle also covers weaving thin branches together to build a simple wattle fence, though the sheep-marking sense is the one still heard on working farms.
How RADDLE is used
A sheep-farming term, mainly British; also used as a verb for the act of marking with it.
- The farmer strapped a block of raddle to the ram's chest before turning him out with the ewes.
- A streak of blue raddle on the ewe's fleece showed she had already been mated.
- He mixed a fresh batch of raddle from ochre and grease.
- Without raddle, the shepherd would have no easy way to track mating dates.
- The old ledger recorded which colour of raddle was used each week.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RADDLE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RADDLE
The 6 tiles of RADDLE in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with RADDLE
4 longer words begin with RADDLE.
Shorter words from the letters in RADDLE
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Common questions about RADDLE
- Is RADDLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RADDLE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RADDLE worth?
- RADDLE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RADDLE mean?
- A block or lump of red ochre pigment that shepherds rub onto a ram's chest so that it marks each ewe he mates with.
- What letters can be added to RADDLE?
- RADDLE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of RADDLE:
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