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Is aloe a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word aloe is a Scrabble US word. The word aloe is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word aloe is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

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Valid words made from Aloe

You can make 13 words from 'aloe' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

4 letters words from 'aloe'

ALOE 4OLEA 4

3 letters words from 'aloe'

ALE 3LEA 3
OLE 3 

2 letters words from 'aloe'

AE 2AL 2
EA 2EL 2
LA 2LO 2
OE 2 

All 4 letters words made out of aloe

aloe laoe aole oale loae olae aleo laeo aelo ealo leao elao aoel oael aeol eaol oeal eoal loea olea leoa eloa oela eola

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word aloe. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in aloe.

Definitions and meaning of aloe

aloe

Etymology

From Old English alwe (“fragrant resin of an East Indian tree”), from Latin aloē, from Ancient Greek ἀλόη (alóē), from Hebrew אֲהָלִים‎ (ʾăhālîm), ultimately from a Dravidian language; reinforced in Middle English by Old French aloes.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæ.loʊ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈləʊ.i/, /ˈæ.ləʊ/
  • Rhymes: -æləʊ

Noun

aloe (plural aloes)

  1. (in the plural) The resins of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for their fragrant aroma, produced after infection by the fungus Phialophora parasitica.
  2. A plant of the genus Aloe.
  3. A strong, bitter drink made from the juice of such plants, used as a purgative.

Usage notes

  • Often used in plural (originally under influence of Old French aloes).

Derived terms

  • aloe vera

Descendants

  • → Irish: aló
  • → Samoan: aloe

Translations

See also

  • agave
  • maguey

Further reading

  • aloe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Aloe on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Aloe on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

  • aole

Italian

Etymology

From Latin aloe.

Noun

aloe m or f (invariable)

  1. aloe (plant)

Anagrams

  • Aleo

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀλόη (alóē, “aloes”)

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.lo.eː/, [ˈäɫ̪oeː]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.lo.e/, [ˈäːlɔɛ]

Noun

aloē f (genitive aloēs); first declension

  1. The aloe.
  2. The bitter juice produced by the aloe used as a perfume, in medicine and in embalming.
  3. (figuratively) Bitterness (in general).

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Descendants

  • → Dutch: aloë
    • Afrikaans: aalwyn
    • → Japanese: アロエ (aroe)
  • → Estonian: aaloe
  • → Finnish: aaloe
  • → German: Aloe
  • → Hungarian: aloé
  • → Italian: aloe
  • → Japanese: 蘆薈 (rokai)
    • → Okinawan: 蘆薈 (rugwai, dugwai)
  • → Old English: alwe
    • English: aloe
      • → Irish: aló
      • → Samoan: aloe
  • Old French: aloes
    • French: aloès
      • → Polish: aloes
      • → Romanian: aloe
    • Norman: aloé
  • → Old Irish: aloe
  • → Portuguese: aloe
  • → Russian: ало́э n (alóe)
  • → Scottish Gaelic: àloe
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: алоја
Latin: aloja
  • → Swedish: aloe
  • → Ukrainian: алое (aloe)
  • → Translingual: Aloe
  • → Translingual: Aloë

References

  • aloe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • aloe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aloe in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French aloe.

Noun

aloe f (plural aloes)

  1. lark (bird)

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (aloe)

Old French

Etymology

From Latin alauda (“lark”).

Noun

aloe f (oblique plural aloes, nominative singular aloe, nominative plural aloes)

  1. lark (bird)

Descendants

  • Middle French: aloe

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (aloe)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin aloe

Alternative forms

  • áloe, aloé

Noun

aloe f (plural aloes)

  1. aloe (plant of the genus Aloe)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French aloès and Latin aloē, from Ancient Greek ἀλόη (alóē).

Noun

aloe f (plural aloe)

  1. aloe
  2. a substance extracted from the aloe plant

Declension

Samoan

Etymology

From English aloe.

Noun

aloe

  1. aloe

Spanish

Noun

aloe m (plural aloes)

  1. Alternative form of áloe

Further reading

  • “aloe” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Source: wiktionary.org
  • any member of the genus Aloe, consisting mostly of trees and shrubs of the lily family.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)