THOLE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. THOLE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept THOLE?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful THOLE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for THOLE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How THOLE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in THOLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 16,338.
What stands out about THOLE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 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 THOLE mean in Scrabble?
verb
Scotsdialect
To endure or put up with something, especially pain, hardship or a difficult situation, chiefly in Scots and northern English dialect.
A speaker who says they must thole the pain is choosing an older, plainer word than endure or bear, one that has survived strongly in Scots while fading almost entirely from standard English. The word often carries a note of quiet, uncomplaining acceptance, describing someone who simply gets on with a hardship rather than fighting or complaining about it. Robert Burns and other Scots poets used thole freely in verse, helping keep the word alive in literary Scots long after it dropped out of everyday English south of the border. Today thole remains familiar to many Scottish speakers in ordinary conversation, even though most English speakers elsewhere would not recognise it.
How THOLE is used
Chiefly Scots and northern English dialect, used in everyday Scottish speech and in Scots poetry and literature for enduring hardship.
- She had to thole the cold on the long walk home.
- He chose simply to thole the criticism rather than argue.
- Farmers here learn early to thole a hard winter.
- The old woman could thole pain that would defeat a younger person.
- They agreed simply to thole the wait for news without complaint.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of THOLE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of THOLE
The 5 tiles of THOLE in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with THOLE
7 longer words begin with THOLE.
Words ending in THOLE
13 words end in THOLE. Useful as a back hook: play THOLE onto a word already on the board.
Words with THOLE inside
17 words contain THOLE in the middle. Words that start with THOLE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in THOLE
Common questions about THOLE
- Is THOLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts THOLE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is THOLE worth?
- THOLE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does THOLE mean?
- To endure or put up with something, especially pain, hardship or a difficult situation, chiefly in Scots and northern English dialect.
- What letters can be added to THOLE?
- THOLE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of THOLE:
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