Is BOWLS a word?
BOWLS is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words With Friends, has 5 letters, and can be rearranged into 1 other word, plus 21 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, BOWLS is a valid word.
What does bowls mean?
noun: a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack.
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
BOWLS: word details
- Pronunciation: BOHLZ (approx., 1 syllable)
- Length: 5 letters, a medium-length word. It is one of 12,578 5-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 10 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 12 points on the tiles.
- Wordle: five letters, so BOWLS works as a Wordle guess or answer.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Anagrams of bowls
Shorter words inside bowls
Words you can make from the letters of bowls.
Solve a whole rack, not just BOWLS
BOWLS is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does BOWLS mean?
BOWLS is a noun. It means: a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack.
Is BOWLS a valid word?
Yes, BOWLS is a valid word. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.