How many points in Scrabble is boil worth? boil how many points in Words With Friends? What does boil mean? Get all these answers on this page.
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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.
boil obil biol ibol oibl iobl boli obli bloi lboi olbi lobi bilo iblo blio lbio ilbo libo oilb iolb olib loib ilob liob
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word boil. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in boil.
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, present active infinitive of bulliō (“I 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)