SHOOL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SHOOL 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 SHOOL?
| 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 SHOOL is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHOOL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SHOOL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SHOOL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 84,026.
What does SHOOL mean in Scrabble?
verb
dialectScots
To walk about idly or saunter aimlessly, especially while begging, in dialect use chiefly Scots and northern English.
Older regional writers used shool for the slow, aimless walk of someone with nowhere pressing to go, and the word often carried a hint of disapproval when it described a person shooling about instead of working. Some dialect sources also record shool as a word for going door to door asking for food or money, linking the idle walk directly to begging rather than simple loitering. Variant spellings shoole and shule appear alongside shool in older glossaries of Scots and northern English speech. The word has largely faded from ordinary use, surviving today mainly in dialect dictionaries and older regional fiction.
How SHOOL is used
Dialect, chiefly Scots and northern English, met mainly in older regional writing rather than current everyday speech.
- The old man would shool along the lane with no particular errand.
- Villagers complained when he began to shool from door to door.
- She watched him shool past the shop window without a glance.
- The dialect glossary defined shool as to saunter about idly.
- He used to shool the streets rather than look for work.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHOOL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SHOOL
The 5 tiles of SHOOL in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SHOOL
5 longer words begin with SHOOL.
Shorter words from the letters in SHOOL
Common questions about SHOOL
- Is SHOOL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHOOL, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHOOL worth?
- SHOOL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHOOL mean?
- To walk about idly or saunter aimlessly, especially while begging, in dialect use chiefly Scots and northern English.
- What letters can be added to SHOOL?
- SHOOL takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SHOOL:
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