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Is boil a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word boil is a Scrabble US word. The word boil is worth 6 points in Scrabble:
B3O1I1L1
Is boil a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word boil is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:
B3O1I1L1
Is boil a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word boil is a Words With Friends word. The word boil is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
B4O1I1L2
You can make 15 words from boil according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
From Middle English bile, büle (“boil, tumor”), from Old English bȳl, bȳle (“boil, swelling”), from Proto-Germanic *būlijō, *būlō (“boil”).
Akin to Dutch buil (“boil, swelling”), German Beule (“boil, hump”), Icelandic beyla (“swelling, hump”). The expected form is bile; the rounding of the diphthong could be caused by the initial b- and/or by association with etymology 2.
boil (plural boils)
From Middle English boillen, from Old French boillir (see French bouillir) from Latin bullīre (“to bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”). Displaced native Old English weallan (intransitive) and wiellan (transitive). More at wall, well.
boil (plural boils)
boil (third-person singular simple present boils, present participle boiling, simple past and past participle boiled or (nonstandard, regional) boilt)