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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:

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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):

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4-letter words (2 found)

BOIL,LOBI,

3-letter words (6 found)

BIO,BOI,LIB,LOB,OBI,OIL,

2-letter words (7 found)

BI,BO,IO,LI,LO,OB,OI,

You can make 15 words from boil according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of boil

boil

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /bɔɪl/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɔɪ.əl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪl

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

boil (plural boils)

  1. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
    Synonyms: abscess, carbuncle, cyst, furuncle, pimple, pustule
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  • Boil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

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.

Noun

boil (plural boils)

  1. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.
  2. An instance of boiling.
  3. A dish of boiled food, especially seafood.
  5. (US) A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)
  6. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
  7. (archaic) A bubbling.
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Verb

boil (third-person singular simple present boils, present participle boiling, simple past and past participle boiled or (nonstandard, regional) boilt)

  1. (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
    Synonyms: seethe, well, (UK, dialectal, dated, uncommon) plaw; see also Thesaurus:cook
    Antonym: condense
  2. (ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.
  3. (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
  4. (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
  5. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
    Synonyms: be baking, be scorching, be sweltering
    Antonym: be freezing
  6. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
    Synonyms: be seething, be baking, be stewing
    Antonym: be freezing
  7. (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
  8. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
  9. (intransitive, of liquids) To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
  10. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
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  • Boiling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Boli, lobi, biol., boli, biol, Bilo, bilo

Source: wiktionary.org