SCHUL is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. SCHUL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCHUL?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCHUL is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 3.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCHUL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SCHUL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SCHUL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 294,092.
What does SCHUL mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
A synagogue; an informal, Yiddish-derived word used mainly by Jewish speakers of English for a Jewish house of worship.
Schul is a variant spelling of shul, itself derived from the Yiddish word for synagogue, and it names both the building where Jewish communal prayer takes place and, loosely, the community that gathers there. The word travelled into English through Yiddish-speaking Jewish communities in Europe and later in North America and Britain, where it remains common in everyday speech alongside the more formal word synagogue.
How SCHUL is used
Informal; mostly used within Jewish communities in preference to the more formal word synagogue.
- They walked to schul together every Saturday morning.
- The old schul on the corner has served the community for a century.
- He was reading from the Torah when we arrived at schul.
- Her grandmother still calls the synagogue schul out of habit.
- The rabbi announced the new schedule to the schul on Friday evening.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCHUL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SCHUL
2 longer words begin with SCHUL.
Shorter words from the letters in SCHUL
Common questions about SCHUL
- Is SCHUL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCHUL, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCHUL worth?
- SCHUL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCHUL mean?
- A synagogue; an informal, Yiddish-derived word used mainly by Jewish speakers of English for a Jewish house of worship.
- What letters can be added to SCHUL?
- SCHUL takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SCHUL:
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