UPBOIL is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. UPBOIL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept UPBOIL?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UPBOIL is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UPBOIL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
upboilsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How UPBOIL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in UPBOIL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 258,692.
What does UPBOIL mean in Scrabble?
verb
rareliterary
To boil up, rising or bubbling upward as a liquid does when it is heated.
This is a rare poetic verb for liquid surging upward, whether a pot on a fire or a spring welling from the ground. Writers sometimes stretch it to feelings, so that anger or laughter can upboil inside a person. Ordinary speech uses boil over or bubble up instead.
How UPBOIL is used
Rare and literary; ordinary writing prefers boil up.
- The soup began to upboil on the stove.
- Cold water seemed to upboil from the rock.
- Rage could upboil in him without warning.
- The poet watched the tide upboil against the cliff.
- Let the milk upboil once and then remove the pan.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UPBOIL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with UPBOIL
3 longer words begin with UPBOIL.
Shorter words from the letters in UPBOIL
Common questions about UPBOIL
- Is UPBOIL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UPBOIL, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UPBOIL worth?
- UPBOIL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UPBOIL mean?
- To boil up, rising or bubbling upward as a liquid does when it is heated.
- What letters can be added to UPBOIL?
- UPBOIL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of UPBOIL:
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