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Is wool a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word wool is a Scrabble US word. The word wool is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

W4O1O1L1

Is wool a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word wool is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

W4O1O1L1

Is wool a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word wool is a Words With Friends word. The word wool is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

W4O1O1L2

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4-letter words (1 found)

WOOL,

3-letter words (4 found)

LOO,LOW,OWL,WOO,

2-letter words (4 found)

LO,OO,OW,WO,

You can make 9 words from wool according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of wool

wool

English

Etymology

From Middle English wolle, from Old English wull, from Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂.

The vowel development u → o → oo is purely graphical. Modern English generally avoids the string ⟨wu⟩ in favour of ⟨wo⟩, and the resulting woll was then altered to wool (as supposedly better representing the pronunciation).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wʊl/
  • (General American) enPR: wo͝ol, IPA(key): /wʊl/, [wʊ̠ɫ], [wəl]
  • (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /wʉl/
  • Rhymes: -ʊl

Noun

wool (usually uncountable, plural wools)

  2. The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
  4. A cloth or yarn made from such hair.
  6. Anything with a fibrous texture like that of sheep's wool.
    Hyponyms: cotton wool; wood wool; mineral wool, rockwool, glass wool; wire wool, aluminum wool, brass wool, steel wool
  8. A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
  9. (obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
  11. (British, New Zealand) Yarn, including that made from synthetic fibers.
  13. (Liverpool, derogatory) A woolly back; a resident of a satellite town outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.
  15. (slang) A marijuana cigarette or cigar laced with crack cocaine.
    Synonyms: wooler, woolie

Hyponyms

  • (cloth or yarn): felt, tweed, worsted

Coordinate terms

  • (hair of sheep): goathair, horsehair, qiviut

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Japanese: ウール (ūru)

Translations

References

  • “wool”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  • “wool”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • “wool”, in The Right Rhymes, launched 2013.

Further reading

  • wool on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Cornish

Noun

wool

  1. soft mutation of gool

Tlingit

Noun

wool

  1. hole

Source: wiktionary.org