WHITTLE is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. WHITTLE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WHITTLE?
| 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: 60 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WHITTLE is to know. It scores 13 from 7 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WHITTLE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WHITTLE scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in WHITTLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 617,576.
What does WHITTLE mean in Scrabble?
verb
To carve wood by cutting small thin slices from it with a knife.
A person who likes to whittle shapes a stick into a spoon, a toy or a point. In a figurative sense, to whittle down is to reduce a list or sum bit by bit.
How WHITTLE is used
Whittle takes the object being carved, and "whittle down" means to reduce gradually.
- Grandfather would whittle a small bird from a scrap of pine.
- The committee had to whittle the list to five names.
- Costs were whittled down over several months.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WHITTLE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WHITTLE
4 longer words begin with WHITTLE.
Shorter words from the letters in WHITTLE
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Common questions about WHITTLE
- Is WHITTLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WHITTLE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WHITTLE worth?
- WHITTLE is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WHITTLE mean?
- To carve wood by cutting small thin slices from it with a knife.
- What letters can be added to WHITTLE?
- WHITTLE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of WHITTLE:
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