bowl: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 9 letter points · starts with B · ends with L
Meaning of bowl
noun
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix, prepare or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. As much as is held by a bowl.
Example: You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix, prepare or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. A dish comprising a mix of different foods served in a bowl, usually named after the base ingredient at the bottom or after a different dish that it simulates.
Example: This restaurant offers a number of different bowls.
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix, prepare or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. The non-mesh outer-container part of a salad spinner.
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix, prepare or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. The round container surface of a mortar (hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle).
Listed forms: bowls.
Source: Wiktionary — bowl.
noun
The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
The action of bowling a ball.
Listed forms: bowls.
Source: Wiktionary — bowl.
verb
- transitive
To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
- intransitive
To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
- intransitive
To play bowling or a similar game.
To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
Example: We were bowled rapidly along the road.
Listed forms: bowls, bowling, bowled.
Source: Wiktionary — bowl.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for bowl.
noun
a concave shape with an open top
noun
the quantity contained in a bowl
noun
a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
noun
a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling
- bowling ball
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is bowl in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of bowl
B(3) + O(1) + W(4) + L(1) = 9 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of bowl
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from bowl
8 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in bowl. Showing up to 24, longest first.