TRAWL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. TRAWL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TRAWL?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TRAWL is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TRAWL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
trawlsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TRAWL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TRAWL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does TRAWL mean in Scrabble?
verb
To fish by dragging a large, funnel-shaped net along or near the sea bottom behind a moving boat; also, more broadly, to search through something thoroughly in the hope of finding useful information.
Commercial fishing boats trawl for species such as cod, shrimp or flatfish by towing a weighted net that scoops up everything in its path along the seabed, a method that can catch large volumes but also unwanted bycatch. The same word works as a noun for the net itself, so sailors speak of casting or hauling in a trawl, and for the trip or catch, as in a good trawl this season. English speakers now also trawl figuratively through archives, databases or the internet, searching broadly and patiently rather than looking for one specific known item. Journalists, for instance, might trawl through years of public records while researching a long investigative story, mirroring the slow, sweeping motion of the original fishing technique.
How TRAWL is used
Common in writing about commercial fishing, and widely used figuratively for a broad, thorough search through records, data or information.
- The boat trawled the coastal waters for shrimp all night.
- Fishermen hauled in a heavy trawl of cod before dawn.
- Researchers trawled through old newspaper archives for clues.
- The captain decided to trawl a different stretch of seabed.
- She trawled the internet for hours looking for the original photo.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TRAWL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TRAWL
12 longer words begin with TRAWL.
Words with TRAWL inside
2 words contain TRAWL in the middle. Words that start with TRAWL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TRAWL
Common questions about TRAWL
- Is TRAWL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TRAWL, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TRAWL worth?
- TRAWL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TRAWL mean?
- To fish by dragging a large, funnel-shaped net along or near the sea bottom behind a moving boat; also, more broadly, to search through something thoroughly in the hope of finding useful information.
- What letters can be added to TRAWL?
- TRAWL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TRAWL:
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