SKELL is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. SKELL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SKELL?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SKELL is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SKELL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SKELL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SKELL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does SKELL mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalNorth American
A homeless or vagrant person, especially one regarded as disreputable, in New York City street slang.
Police officers and city workers in New York popularized skell as shorthand for a person sleeping rough or drifting between shelters, subway cars, and stairwells. The origin is disputed, with some tracing skell back to skeleton, describing someone worn thin by life on the street. Because the word carries a dismissive edge, journalists and writers usually flag it as slang rather than using it as a neutral term.
How SKELL is used
Chiefly informal and regional, associated with New York City police and street slang rather than formal writing.
- The officer recognized the man asleep on the bench as a familiar skell.
- Reporters quoted a transit worker complaining about a rise in skells riding the late trains.
- The shelter volunteer preferred not to use skell, calling it unkind.
- A skell had set up a cardboard shelter in the subway entrance.
- The old novel used skell as gritty local color for its city scenes.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SKELL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SKELL
The 5 tiles of SKELL in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SKELL
14 longer words begin with SKELL.
Words with SKELL inside
4 words contain SKELL in the middle. Words that start with SKELL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SKELL
Common questions about SKELL
- Is SKELL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SKELL, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SKELL worth?
- SKELL is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SKELL mean?
- A homeless or vagrant person, especially one regarded as disreputable, in New York City street slang.
- What letters can be added to SKELL?
- SKELL takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SKELL:
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