WHORL is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. WHORL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WHORL?
| 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 WHORL is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WHORL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
whorlsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WHORL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WHORL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What does WHORL mean in Scrabble?
noun
A coiled or spiral shape, such as a ring of leaves or petals around a stem, one of the ridge patterns in a fingerprint, or a turn in a spiral shell.
Whorl describes a pattern that winds around a central point, and the word appears across very different fields, from botany, where leaves grow in a circular whorl around the stem, to forensic science, where a whorl is one of the basic fingerprint patterns alongside loops and arches. Spiral shells are also described in terms of their whorl count, with each complete turn counted separately. Because the pattern always suggests rotation around a fixed center, whorl is sometimes used more loosely for any tight spiral, such as a whorl of hair.
How WHORL is used
Used across botany, fingerprint analysis and shell description whenever something forms a tight spiral or circular ring.
- Each leaf grows in a neat whorl around the stem.
- The detective compared the whorl on the print to the suspect's thumb.
- A tiny whorl of hair sat at the back of the baby's head.
- The snail shell widens with every whorl toward its opening.
- Botanists counted the number of petals in each whorl of the flower.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WHORL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WHORL
5 longer words begin with WHORL.
Shorter words from the letters in WHORL
Common questions about WHORL
- Is WHORL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WHORL, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WHORL worth?
- WHORL is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WHORL mean?
- A coiled or spiral shape, such as a ring of leaves or petals around a stem, one of the ridge patterns in a fingerprint, or a turn in a spiral shell.
- What letters can be added to WHORL?
- WHORL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WHORL:
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