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Is bowl a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word bowl is a Scrabble US word. The word bowl is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

B3O1W4L1

Is bowl a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word bowl is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

B3O1W4L1

Is bowl a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word bowl is a Words With Friends word. The word bowl is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

B4O1W4L2

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4-letter words (2 found)

BLOW,BOWL,

3-letter words (4 found)

BOW,LOB,LOW,OWL,

2-letter words (5 found)

BO,LO,OB,OW,WO,

You can make 11 words from bowl according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of bowl

bowl obwl bwol wbol owbl wobl bolw oblw blow lbow olbw lobw bwlo wblo blwo lbwo wlbo lwbo owlb wolb olwb lowb wlob lwob

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word bowl. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in bowl.

Definitions and meaning of bowl

bowl

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəʊl/, [bɒʊɫ]
  • (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA(key): /bɐʉl/, [bɒʊɫ]
  • (US) IPA(key): /boʊl/, [boɫ]
  • Rhymes: -əʊl

Etymology 1

From Middle English bolle, from Old English bolla, bolle (“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bollā, from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ (“ball, round vessel, bowl”).

Cognate with North Frisian bol (“bun, bread roll”), Middle Low German bolle, bole (“round object”), Dutch bol (“ball, sphere, scoop, dot”), German Bolle (“bulb”), Danish bolle (“bowl, bread roll”), Icelandic bolli (“cup”). Doublet of boule and pulla.

Noun

bowl (plural bowls)

  1. A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
  2. As much as is held by a bowl.
    Synonym: bowlful
  3. (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
  4. A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
    Synonyms: bowl cut, pudding bowl
  5. The round hollow part of anything.
    1. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
    3. Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
    4. (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
  6. (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
    Synonyms: crater, hollow
  7. (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
  8. (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
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Etymology 2

From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, stud, round object”). Doublet of poll.

Noun

bowl (plural bowls)

  1. (bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
  2. (sports) The action of bowling a ball.
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Verb

bowl (third-person singular simple present bowls, present participle bowling, simple past and past participle bowled)

  1. (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
  2. (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
  3. (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
  4. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
  5. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
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Descendants
  • → Danish: bowle
  • → Dutch: bowlen
  • → German: bowlen
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Anagrams

  • Blow, b'low, blow

Source: wiktionary.org