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Is arval a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word arval is a Scrabble US word. The word arval is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is arval a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word arval is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

A1R1V4A1L1

Is arval a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word arval is a Words With Friends word. The word arval is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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Valid words made from Arval

You can make 19 words from 'arval' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.


5 letters words from 'arval'

ALVAR 8ARVAL 8
LARVA 8LAVRA 8

4 letters words from 'arval'

ALAR 4AVAL 7
LAVA 7VARA 7

3 letters words from 'arval'

AAL 3ALA 3
AVA 6LAR 3
LAV 6RAV 6
VAR 6 

2 letters words from 'arval'

AA 2AL 2
AR 2LA 2

All 5 letters words made out of arval

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

Definitions and meaning of arval

arval

Alternative forms

  • arfal, arvel, arvil, arvill, arvall, arvel, arvell, averill

Etymology

From Middle English arvell, from Old Norse erfiǫl (“a funeral feast”), from arfr (“inheritance”) + öl (“ale”). Cognate with Danish arveøl (“a wake, funeral feast”). More at erf, ale.

Noun

arval (plural arvals)

  1. (Scotland and Northern England, now rare) A funeral feast or wake at which bread and ale was served, traditional in Scotland, the North of England, and among the Norse.
    • 1867, Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Ambrose Barnes, Late Merchant, page 65:
      It was customary in the north to have an arval or funeral dinner after an interment.
    • 2001, Christiaan Louis Leipoldt, ‎Trevor Emslie, Gallows Gecko / The Valley: a trilogy, page 204:
      Only one better feast do I remember, and that was when we gave the arval for the old master when he died of the dropsy. That was a feast if you like. Such a one had never been heard of in the Valley.
  2. (rare, chiefly historical) The ale served at such a wake, the drinking of which was a ritually significant act in Norse culture.
    • 1883, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, ‎Frederick York Powell, Corpus Poeticum Boreale: Eddic poems, page 55:
      […] Then quoth Hamtheow, etc.: 'We shall never come back to our mother [when we have slain the King of Goths]. Thou shalt drink the arval for us all together, for Swanhild and thy sons.'
  3. (Lancashire) The money given to hunters, at the death of a fox, in order to buy ale.

Usage notes

  • (funeral feast): This noun is frequently used attributively, as in arval supper, arval dinner, arval-bread, and so on.

Derived terms

  • arval-bread
  • arval-cake
  • arval-dinner
  • arval-supper

References

  • John Christopher Atkinson, Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect (1868), page 10: Arval, sb. A funeral entertainment. 'In the North the funeral feast is called an arval or arvil-supper; ...'
  • Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary‎[1], volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 77: Arval, sb. Sc. Cum. Wm. Yks. Lan. Obsol.

Anagrams

  • Raval, alvar, larva, lavra

Source: wiktionary.org
  • pertaining to plowed land.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)
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