SPILE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SPILE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SPILE?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPILE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPILE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SPILE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SPILE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What stands out about SPILE
- 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 SPILE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A small wooden peg or spout used to plug or tap a hole, especially in a cask or a tree.
Coopers once drove a spile into a barrel to stop a small vent hole, and the same word describes the tap hammered into a sugar maple each spring to let sap flow into a bucket. In construction, spile can also mean a heavy stake or pile driven into soft ground to support a wall, dock, or bridge foundation. Though the three uses differ, each spile shares the same basic job of being driven into something to plug, tap, or brace it.
How SPILE is used
Found mainly in cooperage, maple sugaring, and construction contexts describing pegs, taps, or support stakes.
- The cooper hammered a small spile into the barrel to seal the vent.
- Each spile in the maple grove dripped steadily into a hanging bucket.
- Workers drove rows of spiles into the riverbank to support the new dock.
- A loose spile let air seep into the cask and spoil the cider.
- The old sugar house still displayed a rusted spile from decades past.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPILE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SPILE
The 5 tiles of SPILE in a different order — 6 found.
Words starting with SPILE
2 longer words begin with SPILE.
Shorter words from the letters in SPILE
Common questions about SPILE
- Is SPILE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPILE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPILE worth?
- SPILE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPILE mean?
- A small wooden peg or spout used to plug or tap a hole, especially in a cask or a tree.
- What letters can be added to SPILE?
- SPILE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SPILE:
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