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Is whaler a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word whaler is a Scrabble US word. The word whaler is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

W4H4A1L1E1R1

Is whaler a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word whaler is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

W4H4A1L1E1R1

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6-letter words (1 found)

WHALER,

5-letter words (7 found)

HALER,LAWER,WALER,WHALE,WHARE,WHEAL,WHEAR,

4-letter words (22 found)

ALEW,AREW,ARLE,EARL,HALE,HARE,HARL,HEAL,HEAR,HERL,LAER,LARE,LEAR,LEHR,RALE,REAL,RHEA,WALE,WARE,WEAL,WEAR,WHAE,

3-letter words (22 found)

ALE,ARE,AWE,AWL,EAR,ERA,HAE,HAW,HER,HEW,LAH,LAR,LAW,LEA,LEW,RAH,RAW,REH,REW,WAE,WAR,WHA,

2-letter words (15 found)

AE,AH,AL,AR,AW,EA,EH,EL,ER,EW,HA,HE,LA,RE,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 68 words from whaler according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of whaler

whaler

Etymology

Composed of whale +‎ -er. In sense 1, displaced Old English hwælhunta (literally “whale hunter”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈweɪlə/
  • (General American) enPR: wāʹlər, IPA(key): /ˈweɪlɚ/
  • (without the wine–whine merger, rhotic) enPR: hwāʹlər, IPA(key): /ˈhweɪlɚ/
  • (without the wine–whine merger, non-rhotic) enPR: hwāʹlə, IPA(key): /ˈhweɪlə/
  • Rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: wailer (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

whaler (plural whalers)

  1. One who hunts whales; a person employed in the whaling industry.
  2. A seagoing vessel used for hunting whales.
  3. One who whales (flogs or beats).
  4. (slang) A large, strong person.
  5. (slang) Something of unusually great size, a whopper, a whacker.
  6. (Australia) Any shark of the family Carcharhinidae; a requiem shark.
    • 2003, Mark Thornley, Veda Dante, Peter Wilson, Action Guide: Surfing Australia, Tuttle Publishing, HK, page 264,
      The whaler shark family, which includes the grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos),silvertip (Carcharhinus albimarginatus), bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) and bronze whaler (Carcharhinus brachyurus) are fast moving, territorial and have bitten divers snd surfers in the past.
  7. (Australian slang, dated) A sundowner; one who cruises about.

Derived terms

  • bronze whaler
  • whaler's delight

Translations

References

  • “whaler”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “whaler”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes V (Simular–Z), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
  • E. E. Morris, Australian English, 1898

Anagrams

  • Wahler

Source: wiktionary.org