What BOILS Means
BOILS is a form of BOIL, which means:
- verb: come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor“Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius”
- verb: immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes“boil potatoes”
- noun: a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
- 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
BOILS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 O1 I1 L1 S1.
Words Made From The Letters In BOILS
40 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.
4 letter words (12)
3 letter words (17)
2 letter words (11)
Longer Words Containing BOILS
BOILS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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