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Is ail a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word ail is a Scrabble US word. The word ail is worth 3 points in Scrabble:
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Is ail a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word ail is a Scrabble UK word and has 3 points:
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Is ail a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word ail is a Words With Friends word. The word ail is worth 4 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 5 words from ail according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
Abbreviation of English Aimele.
ail
Inherited from Middle English eilen, from Old English eġlan, eġlian (“to trouble, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *aglijan, from Proto-Germanic *aglijaną (“to trouble, vex”), cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (agljan, “to distress”).
ail (third-person singular simple present ails, present participle ailing, simple past and past participle ailed)
ail (plural ails)
Inherited from Middle English eyle, eile, from Old English eġle (“hideous, loathsome, hateful, horrid, troublesome, grievous, painful”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌿𐍃 (aglus, “hard, difficult”).
ail (comparative ailer or more ail, superlative ailest or most ail)
Inherited from Middle English eile, eyle, eiȝle, from Old English eġl (“an ail; awn; beard of barley; mote”), from Proto-Germanic *agilō (“awn”), related to *ahaz (“ear (of grain)”). Cognate with German Achel, Egel, Ägel.
ail (plural ails)
ail
From Latin allium.
ail
Inherited from Old French, from Latin allium.
ail m (plural ails or aulx)
From Old Irish ail (“boulder, rock”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸales-, from Proto-Indo-European *pelis-, *pels- (“stone”).
ail f (genitive singular aileach, nominative plural aileacha or ailche)
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ail
From Old French, from Latin allium.
ail m (uncountable)
Possibly from Proto-Celtic *ɸalos, from Proto-Indo-European *pels-, *pelis- (“rock, cliff”), see also German Fels (“rock”).
The declension was not stable at the start of the Old Irish period, with a shift from an i-stem declension to a k-stem declension ongoing.
ail f (genitive ailech, nominative plural ailich)
·ail
From Middle English eilen, from Old English eġlan, eġlian (“to trouble, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *aglijan.
ail (third-person singular simple present ails, present participle ailin, simple past ailt, past participle ailt)
From Middle Welsh eil, from Proto-Brythonic *ėl, from Proto-Celtic *alyos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos (“other”).
ail (feminine singular ail, plural ail, not comparable) (precedes the noun, triggers soft mutation of all nouns)