WRAWL is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. WRAWL is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept WRAWL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WRAWL is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WRAWL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
wrawlsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WRAWL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WRAWL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 2 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 348,553.
What does WRAWL mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicrare
To cry out harshly, as a cat does when caterwauling.
To wrawl describes the harsh, drawn-out cry of a cat rather than an ordinary meow, and older writers extended it loosely to any animal howling in a similarly grating way. The word sits with waul and wawl as near-twins for the same sound, none of which survived into everyday modern English.
How WRAWL is used
Appears mainly in older literary English, notably in Spenser, rather than in current usage.
- The tomcats would wrawl on the roof half the night.
- She heard something wrawl in the alley and shut the window.
- The poem lets stray beasts wrawl beneath the moon.
- A cat began to wrawl the moment the dog appeared.
- Old dictionaries pair wrawl with waul as the same ugly noise.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WRAWL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WRAWL
3 longer words begin with WRAWL.
Shorter words from the letters in WRAWL
Common questions about WRAWL
- Is WRAWL valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and WRAWL is not in it.
- How many points is WRAWL worth?
- WRAWL is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WRAWL mean?
- To cry out harshly, as a cat does when caterwauling.
- What letters can be added to WRAWL?
- WRAWL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WRAWL:
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