Is COOEE a valid word?

COOEE is a long, high-pitched call used in the Australian bush to attract attention over a distance, and it can be a verb too: COOEED, COOEEING and COOEES are valid. It uses two O tiles and two E tiles with one C, a rare way to clear two pairs of doubled vowels at once. Early settlers learned the call from Aboriginal Australians, and to be within cooee still means to be within earshot.

Before any bonus squares: C 3 + O 1 + O 1 + E 1 + E 1 = 7. On a double-word square that's 14, on a triple-word 21, and every letter bonus under one of these tiles is applied first.

Later in the game, put the C on a 3L square and COOEE is worth 13 before any word bonus.

Place that one tile so it also forms a word in the other direction and both words score.

Swap any one letter of COOEE and these are still words:

No other word in the list uses exactly the letters C, O, O, E and E.

COOEE is a long, high call used in Australia to get someone's attention from far away.

• Vowel-heavy words

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