WOOLIE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. WOOLIE 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 WOOLIE?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WOOLIE is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WOOLIE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WOOLIE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in WOOLIE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 49,275.
What stands out about WOOLIE
- The letters of WOOLIE run in reverse alphabetical order.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does WOOLIE mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
A garment made of wool, especially a knitted sweater or similar piece of clothing.
A woolie is the friendly, shortened name for a woolly jumper or other knitted garment, and it is nearly always used in the plural when people talk about warm winter clothes. The ending is the same pet-name suffix that gives hankie and nightie. It suggests comfort and cosiness rather than fashion, and appears mostly in everyday speech and catalogues.
How WOOLIE is used
Informal; spelled also woolly or wooly.
- She dug a thick woolie out of the bottom drawer.
- Grandmother knitted every child a new woolie each autumn.
- Put on a woolie before you go out into the cold.
- The shop sells a woolie in six bright colours.
- His old woolie had a hole at one elbow.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WOOLIE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WOOLIE
3 longer words begin with WOOLIE.
Shorter words from the letters in WOOLIE
Common questions about WOOLIE
- Is WOOLIE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WOOLIE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WOOLIE worth?
- WOOLIE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WOOLIE mean?
- A garment made of wool, especially a knitted sweater or similar piece of clothing.
- What letters can be added to WOOLIE?
- WOOLIE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of WOOLIE:
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