VILL is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. VILL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept VILL?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VILL is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VILL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How VILL scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in VILL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 36,308.
What does VILL mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A township: the smallest unit of English medieval administration.
A vill was what the sheriff dealt with and what the law held responsible: if a killing went unsolved the whole vill could be fined for it. The word belongs to law and administration rather than to geography, and it appears in records and in the histories written from them.
How VILL is used
Countable: a vill, two vills. Chiefly in legal and medieval history.
- The vill was fined because nobody would name the killer.
- Each vill sent four men and the reeve to the court.
- A vill might hold one village or three hamlets.
- The record lists every vill in the hundred.
- The word vill is administrative and not geographical.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VILL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VILL
Showing 24 of 78 words that begin with VILL.
Words ending in VILL
1 words end in VILL. Useful as a back hook: play VILL onto a word already on the board.
Words with VILL inside
Showing 24 of 76 words that contain VILL somewhere in the middle. Words that start with VILL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in VILL
Common questions about VILL
- Is VILL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VILL, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VILL worth?
- VILL is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VILL mean?
- A township: the smallest unit of English medieval administration.
- What letters can be added to VILL?
- VILL takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of VILL:
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