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

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5-letter words (3 found)

BEDEL,BLEED,DEBEL,

4-letter words (7 found)

BEDE,BLED,BLEE,DEBE,DELE,LEDE,LEED,

3-letter words (10 found)

BED,BEE,BEL,DEB,DEE,DEL,EEL,ELD,LED,LEE,

2-letter words (5 found)

BE,DE,ED,EE,EL,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 26 words from bedel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of bedel

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Definitions and meaning of bedel

bedel

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin pedellus, bedellus, bidellus, from Middle English bedel; cognate with beadle.

Noun

bedel (plural bedels)

  1. (historical) An administrative official at universities in several European countries, often with a policiary function at the time when universities had their own jurisdiction over students.

Anagrams

  • Lebed, beled, bleed, debel

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bedelen.

Pronunciation

Verb

bedel (present bedel, present participle bedelende, past participle gebedel)

  1. To beg

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bedel

  1. A toll, due, fee, contribution

Declension

References

  • “bedel”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbɛdɛl]
  • Rhymes: -ɛdel
  • Hyphenation: be‧del

Noun

bedel

  1. genitive plural of bedla

Dutch

Etymology 1

From bedelen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbeːdəl/
  • Hyphenation: be‧del
  • Rhymes: -eːdəl

Noun

bedel m (plural bedels, diminutive bedeltje n)

  1. A charm (small trinket or pendant on a bracelet).
  2. The practice of begging, mendicancy.
Usage notes

In the sense “charm” most commonly used in the diminutive form bedeltje. When used as the first component in a compound noun, however, as in bedelarmband = bedel +‎ armband, the main form is used.

Synonyms
  • (begging): gebedel
  • (begging): bedelen
Derived terms
  • bedelbidden
  • bedelbruiker

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Pedell, from Medieval Latin bidellus, bedellus, pedellus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bəˈdɛl/
  • Hyphenation: be‧del
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

bedel m (plural bedels, diminutive bedeltje n)

  1. (obsolete) A beadle, academic usher.
Synonyms
  • pedel

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbeːdəl/
  • Hyphenation: be‧del
  • Rhymes: -eːdəl

Verb

bedel

  1. inflection of bedelen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams

  • beeld, belde

Old French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin bidellus, bedellus, pedellus, from a merger of Frankish *bidil (“candidate, volunteer”) (from Proto-Germanic *bidilaz (“seeker”), from *bidjaną (“to ask, beseech”)) and Frankish *budil (“herald, beadle”) (from Proto-Germanic *budilaz (“herald”)). Akin to Old High German bitil (“candidate”), Old High German butil (“beadle”) (German Büttel), Old English bydel (“apparitor, messenger, beadle”) (English beadle).

Noun

bedel oblique singular, m (oblique plural bedeaus or bedeax or bediaus or bediax or bedels, nominative singular bedeaus or bedeax or bediaus or bediax or bedels, nominative plural bedel)

  1. A beadle, academic usher

Descendants

  • Middle French: bedeau
    • French: bedeau
  • → Italian: bidello

Spanish

Noun

bedel m or f by sense (plural bedeles)

  1. janitor, porter

See also

  • conserje m
  • portero m

Further reading

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

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بدل, from Arabic بَدَل (badal, “substitution, equivalent”).

Adjective

bedel

  1. equivalent
    Bir dolar, beş Türk lirasına bedel. ― One dollar is equivalent to five Turkish lira.

Noun

bedel (definite accusative bedeli, plural bedeller)

  1. value, price
  2. substitute
  3. substitute hajji (a person who performs the hajj for payment in place of someone else)

Declension

References

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bedel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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