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Is oil a Scrabble word?

Yes, oil is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 3 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 oil?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (countable) An oil painting.Examples: "Yet, in another way, I was unable to put Picasso's oils in the same class as Cezanne's, or even (which will no doubt shock many readers) as Renoir's."countable

2. (painting) Oil paint.Examples: "I prefer to paint in oil"countableuncountable

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To lubricate with oil.Examples: "Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints."; "Platform faces in Holland are further back from the track than they are in Britain, and it is a common thing to see a driver standing quite comfortably between his engine and the platform while oiling the motion."; "The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls."transitive

2. (transitive) To grease with oil for cooking.transitive

3. (transitive) To fuel with oil.transitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "oil"?

Scrabble
3 points
O1
I1
L1
Words With Friends
4 points
O1
I1
L2

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