WAUL is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. WAUL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WAUL?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WAUL is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WAUL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WAUL scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in WAUL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 13,615.
What does WAUL mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To cry loudly and plaintively like a cat.
A cat that waul lets out a long, wailing cry rather than a short meow, and the word was once used more widely for any drawn-out, complaining cry. It appears mainly in older writing and dialect speech today, close in sound and sense to the related word caterwaul.
How WAUL is used
Rare outside older or dialect writing; caterwaul is the more familiar related word.
- The tomcat began to waul outside the window at midnight.
- Stray cats waul in the alley whenever they are hungry or fighting.
- The old poem describes a wind that seemed to waul like a cat.
- She woke to hear two cats waul beneath her bedroom window.
- He said the rusty hinge would waul unless someone oiled it soon.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WAUL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WAUL
12 longer words begin with WAUL.
Words ending in WAUL
1 words end in WAUL. Useful as a back hook: play WAUL onto a word already on the board.
Words with WAUL inside
6 words contain WAUL in the middle. Words that start with WAUL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WAUL
Common questions about WAUL
- Is WAUL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WAUL, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WAUL worth?
- WAUL is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WAUL mean?
- To cry loudly and plaintively like a cat.
- What letters can be added to WAUL?
- WAUL takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of WAUL:
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