BOIL

What BOIL Means

1. verb: come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor“Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius”
2. verb: immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes“boil potatoes”
3. noun: a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
4. noun: the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level“they brought the water to a boil”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BOIL is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 O1 I1 L1.

Anagrams of BOIL (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In BOIL

13 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

3 letter words (6)

2 letter words (7)

Longer Words Containing BOIL

BOIL appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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