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CHANNEL
Scrabble Validity
✅ Valid Word
Valid in:
- SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK)
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US)
- ENABLE (Words with Friends)
Tile Values
C
3
H
4
A
1
N
1
N
1
E
1
L
1
Σ
12
Definitions
Noun
- a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors; "possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores"
- a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through; "the fields were crossed with irrigation channels"; "gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street"
- a television station and its programs; "a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels"
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; "the tear duct was obstructed"; "the alimentary canal"; "poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs"
- a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"
- (often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must go through official channels"; "lines of communication were set up between the two firms"
- a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels; "the ship went aground in the channel"
- a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
Verb
- send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message"
- direct the flow of; "channel information towards a broad audience"
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat"
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word CHANNEL
Yes, CHANNEL is a valid Scrabble word. If you play it, you can score 12 points in Scrabble. Because it is a 7-letter word, playing it will also earn you a bingo bonus if you use all your tiles! It is recognized as a playable word in the SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK), TWL/NWL (Scrabble US), ENABLE (Words with Friends) dictionaries.
CHANNEL is a 7-letter word. It contains 2 vowels and 5 consonants.