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Is hail a Scrabble word?

Yes, hail is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 7 points in Scrabble.

Word Games

  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of hail?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (meteorology, uncountable) Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.uncountable

2. (meteorology, countable) An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.countable

3. (countable, by extension) A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.Examples: "Their lack of good intelligence also meant that they vastly overestimated the size of their foes for far too long, hails of armor-piercing shells doing comparatively little damage compared to the high explosive that they should have been using."broadlycountable

verb (English)

1. (impersonal) To have hailstones fall from the sky.Examples: "They say it's going to hail tomorrow."impersonal

2. (intransitive) To send or release hail.Examples: "The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes."intransitive

adj (English)

1. (obsolete) Healthy, whole, safe.obsolete

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To greet; give salutation to; salute.Examples: "[…] Farewel happy Fields / Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail / Infernal world, and thou profoundeſt Hell / Receive they new Poſſeſſor: […]"transitive

2. (transitive) To name; to designate; to call.Examples: "Such a Son as all men hail'd me happy;"; "He was hailed as a hero."transitive

3. (transitive) To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.Examples: "Hail a taxi."; "'Cause I've got one hand in my pocket / And the other one is hailin' a taxi cab"transitive

4. (transitive) To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.Examples: "In Melbourne, you would usually have to hail a tram when you are travelling late at night and there are no other passengers waiting at your stop."AustraliaUKbroadlytransitive

5. (transitive) To signal in order to initiate communication with.transitive

6. (transitive) In the game of uppies and downies, to throw (the ball) repeatedly up and down at the goal location, in order to score a point.transitive

intj (English)

1. (archaic or poetic) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.Examples: "Hail, brave friend."archaicpoetic

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "hail"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "hail"?

Scrabble
7 points
H4
A1
I1
L1
Words With Friends
7 points
H3
A1
I1
L2

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