SNAIL is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. SNAIL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SNAIL?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SNAIL is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SNAIL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SNAIL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SNAIL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What stands out about SNAIL
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 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 SNAIL mean in Scrabble?
noun
A soft-bodied mollusk with a coiled external shell that moves slowly on a single muscular foot, found on land, in fresh water and in the sea; also used figuratively for a slow-moving person, animal or process.
A snail secretes a trail of slime that lets its muscular foot glide smoothly over rough or dry surfaces, and it can withdraw entirely into its coiled shell for protection when threatened or during dry weather. Gardeners often treat snails as pests because they chew through leaves and seedlings overnight, while in French cuisine certain land snails are prepared as escargot. Because the animal moves at such an unhurried pace, snail has become a byword for extreme slowness, as in the phrase at a snail's pace.
How SNAIL is used
Used literally for the mollusk and very commonly in the figurative phrase at a snail's pace to describe something painfully slow.
- A snail left a silvery trail across the garden path.
- The traffic crawled along at a snail's pace all morning.
- She found a snail clinging to the underside of a leaf.
- Chefs prepared the snails with garlic butter for the appetizer.
- The tiny snail withdrew into its shell at the slightest touch.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SNAIL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SNAIL
The 5 tiles of SNAIL in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with SNAIL
11 longer words begin with SNAIL.
Shorter words from the letters in SNAIL
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Common questions about SNAIL
- Is SNAIL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SNAIL, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SNAIL worth?
- SNAIL is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SNAIL mean?
- A soft-bodied mollusk with a coiled external shell that moves slowly on a single muscular foot, found on land, in fresh water and in the sea; also used figuratively for a slow-moving person, animal or process.
- What letters can be added to SNAIL?
- SNAIL takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SNAIL:
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