TRAVAIL is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. TRAVAIL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TRAVAIL?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 52 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TRAVAIL is to know. It scores 10 from 7 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TRAVAIL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
travailsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TRAVAIL scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in TRAVAIL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 171,549.
What does TRAVAIL mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
Painful or laborious effort; hard toil.
Travail suggests labour that exhausts and hurts, not simply work that takes time. An older meaning ties it to the pains of childbirth, and as a verb it means to toil or suffer.
How TRAVAIL is used
Travail is literary and often appears in the phrase for long years of hard work or suffering.
- After years of travail, the cathedral was finally finished.
- The poem describes the travail of the farmers in a hard winter.
- She spoke of the travail that came before the peace treaty.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TRAVAIL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TRAVAIL
3 longer words begin with TRAVAIL.
Shorter words from the letters in TRAVAIL
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Common questions about TRAVAIL
- Is TRAVAIL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TRAVAIL, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TRAVAIL worth?
- TRAVAIL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TRAVAIL mean?
- Painful or laborious effort; hard toil.
- What letters can be added to TRAVAIL?
- TRAVAIL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of TRAVAIL:
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