UTILE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. UTILE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept UTILE?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UTILE is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UTILE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How UTILE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in UTILE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 7,262.
What does UTILE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literaryrare
Useful or profitable; serving some practical purpose rather than being merely decorative.
Utile comes from the same Latin root as utility, and English writers borrowed it directly to describe something valued for what it does rather than how it looks. The word turns up most often in the pairing dulce et utile, a Latin phrase meaning sweet and useful, borrowed from the poet Horace to describe writing that both pleases and instructs. Outside that phrase, utile reads as a formal or slightly bookish alternative to the everyday word useful.
How UTILE is used
Rare and rather formal; encountered mostly in the phrase dulce et utile or in deliberately literary prose.
- The old proverb dulce et utile praises writing that is both sweet and utile.
- He valued the tool for being utile rather than beautiful.
- A truly utile invention solves a real problem without unnecessary ornament.
- The critic called the essay utile but joyless, all instruction and no delight.
- Few modern writers still reach for utile instead of simply useful.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UTILE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of UTILE
The 5 tiles of UTILE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with UTILE
1 longer words begin with UTILE.
Words ending in UTILE
4 words end in UTILE. Useful as a back hook: play UTILE onto a word already on the board.
Words with UTILE inside
7 words contain UTILE in the middle. Words that start with UTILE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in UTILE
Common questions about UTILE
- Is UTILE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UTILE, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UTILE worth?
- UTILE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UTILE mean?
- Useful or profitable; serving some practical purpose rather than being merely decorative.
- What letters can be added to UTILE?
- UTILE takes 4 hooks: 3 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of UTILE:
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