What HOWL Means
- verb: emit long loud cries“wail in self-pity”
- verb: cry loudly, as of animals“The coyotes were howling in the desert”
- noun: a long loud emotional utterance“he gave a howl of pain”
- noun: the long plaintive cry of a hound or a wolf
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
HOWL is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 O1 W4 L1.
Words Made From The Letters In HOWL
9 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 (4)
2 letter words (5)
Longer Words Containing HOWL
HOWL appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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