SPAWL is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. SPAWL is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept SPAWL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPAWL is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPAWL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
spawlsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SPAWL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SPAWL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does SPAWL mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To spit or splutter saliva from the mouth.
Spawl is an old, mostly archaic verb for spitting, sometimes with a sense of doing it carelessly or with a splutter rather than one deliberate spit. The same spelling was also once used as a noun for a chip or splinter of stone, a sense now carried mainly by the related word spall, so a reader meeting spawl in an older text has to judge from context which idea is meant. Modern writing has almost entirely dropped spawl in favour of plain spit, leaving the word mostly in dialect glossaries and historical dictionaries.
How SPAWL is used
Archaic and rare; modern English uses spit instead, and the noun sense of a stone chip is now usually spelled spall.
- The old text describes the drunkard as spawling on the tavern floor.
- He spawled into the fire and turned back to his story.
- A glossary of dialect words lists spawl next to spit.
- The preacher condemned those who spawled in the street.
- She read spawl in the old letter and had to look it up.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPAWL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SPAWL
The 5 tiles of SPAWL in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SPAWL
3 longer words begin with SPAWL.
Shorter words from the letters in SPAWL
Common questions about SPAWL
- Is SPAWL valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SPAWL is not in it.
- How many points is SPAWL worth?
- SPAWL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPAWL mean?
- To spit or splutter saliva from the mouth.
- What letters can be added to SPAWL?
- SPAWL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SPAWL:
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