WOALD is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. WOALD 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 WOALD?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WOALD is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WOALD
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
woaldsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WOALD scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WOALD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does WOALD mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicdialectbotany
A variant spelling of weld, a plant that yields a yellow dye; also, the yellow dye or pigment obtained from it.
Woald names the same plant more commonly spelled weld, a tall herb long cultivated for the strong yellow dye extracted from its leaves and stems, once widely used alongside woad and madder in traditional textile dyeing. Dyers prized the resulting color for its brightness and its ability to combine with blue woad to produce shades of green, an important trick in an age before synthetic dyes existed. The spelling woald appears mainly in older or regional texts, while weld has become the standard modern form used in botany and dye history alike. Both names ultimately point to the same plant and the same rich yellow pigment it produces.
How WOALD is used
Woald is a rare, older spelling of weld, met mainly in historical or regional writing about traditional plant dyes.
- Dyers once boiled woald leaves to produce a strong yellow dye.
- The recipe called for woald mixed with a little woad for green.
- Old textile records list woald among the common dye plants.
- She grew woald in the garden to try traditional dyeing methods.
- The cloth had been colored with woald long before synthetic dyes existed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WOALD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WOALD
The 5 tiles of WOALD in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with WOALD
1 longer words begin with WOALD.
Shorter words from the letters in WOALD
Common questions about WOALD
- Is WOALD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WOALD, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WOALD worth?
- WOALD is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WOALD mean?
- A variant spelling of weld, a plant that yields a yellow dye; also, the yellow dye or pigment obtained from it.
- What letters can be added to WOALD?
- WOALD takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WOALD:
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