SHEAL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SHEAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SHEAL?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHEAL is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHEAL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
shealsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SHEAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SHEAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What stands out about SHEAL
- The same 5 tiles also spell 6 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 SHEAL mean in Scrabble?
verb
dialectarchaic
To remove the husk, pod, or shell from something, especially peas, beans, or grain.
A cook or farm worker would sheal peas by splitting the pod open and pushing the seeds out with a thumb, leaving the empty husk behind. The word belonged to everyday kitchen and farm speech in Scotland and northern England before shell became the standard term across most of the English-speaking world. Several old spellings of the same word exist side by side in older texts, reflecting how loosely regional writers recorded local speech.
How SHEAL is used
Dialect verb, chiefly Scottish and northern English, now largely replaced by shell in everyday use.
- Grandmother taught the children to sheal peas on the back step.
- They sat together shealing beans for the evening meal.
- The recipe begins with a pound of freshly shealed peas.
- Farm hands shealed grain by hand before mechanical threshers arrived.
- She shealed the pod and dropped the peas into a bowl.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHEAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SHEAL
The 5 tiles of SHEAL in a different order — 6 found.
Words starting with SHEAL
4 longer words begin with SHEAL.
Words ending in SHEAL
1 words end in SHEAL. Useful as a back hook: play SHEAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with SHEAL inside
1 words contain SHEAL in the middle. Words that start with SHEAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SHEAL
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Common questions about SHEAL
- Is SHEAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHEAL, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHEAL worth?
- SHEAL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHEAL mean?
- To remove the husk, pod, or shell from something, especially peas, beans, or grain.
- What letters can be added to SHEAL?
- SHEAL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SHEAL:
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