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SHELL
Scrabble Validity
✅ Valid Word
Valid in:
- SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK)
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US)
- ENABLE (Words with Friends)
Tile Values
S
1
H
4
E
1
L
1
L
1
Σ
8
Definitions
Verb
- remove the husks from; "husk corn"
- remove from its shell or outer covering; "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels"
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
- use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day"
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly; "He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning"
- fall out of the pod or husk; "The corn shelled"
- create by using explosives; "blast a passage through the mountain"
Noun
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has a walnut case"
- a very light narrow racing boat
- a rigid covering that envelops an object; "the satellite is covered with a smooth shell of ice"
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word SHELL
Yes, SHELL is a valid Scrabble word. If you play it, you can score 8 points in Scrabble. It is recognized as a playable word in the SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK), TWL/NWL (Scrabble US), ENABLE (Words with Friends) dictionaries.
SHELL is a 5-letter word. It contains 1 vowels and 4 consonants.