RILL is a valid Scrabble word — 4 points
Yes. RILL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RILL?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RILL is to know. It scores 4 from 4 tiles, takes 9 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RILL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RILL scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in RILL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 12,103.
What does RILL mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A very small stream or brook, often just a thin trickle of water across the ground.
A rill is smaller than a brook and far smaller than a river, and writers reach for it when they want to describe water so slight it can be stepped over. Geographers also use the word for the narrow channels that rainwater cuts into a hillside before they grow into anything larger.
How RILL is used
Mostly literary or descriptive, used to evoke gentle rural scenery rather than in everyday speech.
- A thin rill ran down the hillside after the rain.
- They followed the rill until it joined a wider stream.
- The poem described a rill winding through the meadow.
- Erosion had cut a shallow rill across the bare slope.
- Children waded in the shallow rill behind the cottage.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RILL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RILL
10 longer words begin with RILL.
Words ending in RILL
18 words end in RILL. Useful as a back hook: play RILL onto a word already on the board.
Words with RILL inside
Showing 24 of 271 words that contain RILL somewhere in the middle. Words that start with RILL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RILL
Common questions about RILL
- Is RILL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RILL, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RILL worth?
- RILL is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RILL mean?
- A very small stream or brook, often just a thin trickle of water across the ground.
- What letters can be added to RILL?
- RILL takes 9 hooks: 7 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of RILL:
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