WEDEL is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. WEDEL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WEDEL?
| 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 WEDEL is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WEDEL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WEDEL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WEDEL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 35,648.
What does WEDEL mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To ski downhill using a series of quick, short turns with the skis kept close together and parallel.
Wedel names a skiing technique in which the skier makes rapid, linked turns by swiveling both skis together, producing a smooth wiggling path down the slope rather than the wider arcs of a traditional turn. The term and the technique both came into English skiing vocabulary from German, where the parent word literally means to wag or wiggle, describing the visual effect of the skis moving side to side. Instructors teach wedeling as an advanced technique, useful for maintaining control and speed on steep or narrow sections of a slope. Outside skiing instruction and enthusiast writing, wedel is rarely used in everyday English.
How WEDEL is used
Wedel is a specialist skiing term, used mainly in instructional and enthusiast writing about downhill technique.
- The instructor demonstrated how to wedel down the steep slope.
- She learned to wedel confidently after a week of lessons.
- Advanced skiers wedel through narrow gaps between the trees.
- He wedeled smoothly past the last set of gates.
- Wedeling takes practice before the turns feel natural.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WEDEL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WEDEL
7 longer words begin with WEDEL.
Shorter words from the letters in WEDEL
Common questions about WEDEL
- Is WEDEL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WEDEL, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WEDEL worth?
- WEDEL is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WEDEL mean?
- To ski downhill using a series of quick, short turns with the skis kept close together and parallel.
- What letters can be added to WEDEL?
- WEDEL takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WEDEL:
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