What YAWLS Means
YAWLS is a form of YAWL, which means:
- noun: a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars)
- noun: a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost
- verb: emit long loud cries“wail in self-pity”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
YAWLS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as Y4 A1 W4 L1 S1.
Anagrams of YAWLS (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In YAWLS
30 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 (10)
3 letter words (14)
2 letter words (6)
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