RILLET is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. RILLET is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RILLET?
| 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 RILLET is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RILLET
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
rilletsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RILLET scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in RILLET, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 51,100.
What does RILLET mean in Scrabble?
noun
literaryrare
A very small stream or brook, smaller than an ordinary rill.
Rillet takes the older word rill and adds the diminutive suffix -et, a pattern English also uses in words like islet or ringlet to mark something as a lesser version of the main thing. Poets and older nature writers favored rillet for its light, delicate sound, using it for the thin threads of water that wind through meadows or trickle down hillsides after rain. It never entered everyday speech the way brook or creek did, so today rillet survives mainly in literary or descriptive writing rather than ordinary conversation. Geographers occasionally reach for it too, when a watercourse is too slight to earn a proper name on a map yet still shows a visible current.
How RILLET is used
Literary; appears in descriptive or poetic writing about small streams rather than in everyday speech.
- A rillet trickled between the mossy stones after the storm.
- The poem described every rillet as a thread of silver light.
- Children waded across the shallow rillet on their walk.
- A thin rillet fed the larger stream lower in the valley.
- The map marked the rillet too small to carry a name of its own.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RILLET and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RILLET
The 6 tiles of RILLET in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with RILLET
2 longer words begin with RILLET.
Shorter words from the letters in RILLET
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Common questions about RILLET
- Is RILLET valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RILLET, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RILLET worth?
- RILLET is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RILLET mean?
- A very small stream or brook, smaller than an ordinary rill.
- What letters can be added to RILLET?
- RILLET takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of RILLET:
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