SWIPLE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. SWIPLE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SWIPLE?
| 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 SWIPLE is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SWIPLE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
swiplesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SWIPLE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SWIPLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 172,461.
What does SWIPLE mean in Scrabble?
noun
rarehistorical
The heavy swinging bar of a flail, the part that strikes the grain when it is threshed.
A hand flail had two pieces joined by a loop of leather or rope: a long handle held by the worker and a shorter, heavier bar that swung freely at its end. The swiple was that bar, and it was the part that actually beat the ears of corn on the threshing floor to loosen the grain. The word is an old farming term, now met mainly in historical writing and in lists of unusual words.
How SWIPLE is used
Historical farming term, also spelled swipple; rarely used outside books about old agriculture.
- The swiple of the flail was cut from a length of hard thorn.
- He swung the handle so that the swiple came down flat on the sheaf.
- A cracked swiple meant a morning lost repairing the flail.
- The museum label described the swiple as the beating part.
- She learned the word swiple from a book on country crafts.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SWIPLE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SWIPLE
1 longer words begin with SWIPLE.
Shorter words from the letters in SWIPLE
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Common questions about SWIPLE
- Is SWIPLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SWIPLE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SWIPLE worth?
- SWIPLE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SWIPLE mean?
- The heavy swinging bar of a flail, the part that strikes the grain when it is threshed.
- What letters can be added to SWIPLE?
- SWIPLE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SWIPLE:
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