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Is belle a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word belle is a Scrabble US word. The word belle is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is belle a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word belle is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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

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5-letter words (1 found)

BELLE,

4-letter words (2 found)

BELL,BLEE,

3-letter words (5 found)

BEE,BEL,EEL,ELL,LEE,

2-letter words (3 found)

BE,EE,EL,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 12 words from belle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of belle

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Definitions and meaning of belle

belle

Etymology

From French belle (“beautiful”), from Latin bella.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɛl/
  • Rhymes: -ɛl
  • Homophone: bell

Noun

belle (plural belles)

  1. An attractive woman.
    In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.
  2. (dated) A fellow gay man.

Derived terms

  • southern belle
  • belle dame sans merci

Translations

See also

References

  • “belle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • Lebel

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

belle

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of bellen

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɛl/
  • Homophones: bel, belles

Adjective

belle

  1. feminine singular of beau

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: belle
  • English: Belle

Noun

belle f (plural belles)

  1. beautiful woman, belle, beauty
  2. (Louisiana) girlfriend

Coordinate terms

(girlfriend):

  • beau
  • blonde
  • femme
  • gars
  • homme

Derived terms

  • Belle au bois dormant
  • faire la belle
  • jouer la belle
  • se faire la belle

Further reading

  • “belle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛlə

Verb

belle

  1. inflection of bellen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Interlingua

Adjective

belle (comparative plus belle, superlative le plus belle)

  1. beautiful

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɛl.le/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlle
  • Hyphenation: bèl‧le

Adjective

belle

  1. feminine plural of bello

Noun

belle f

  1. plural of bella

Latin

Etymology

From bellus (“pretty, handsome”).

Adverb

bellē (comparative bellius, superlative bellissimē)

  1. well, neatly, perfectly
  2. prettily, delightfully

Derived terms

  • perbellē

Related terms

  • bellus
  • bonus

References

  • “belle”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “belle”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • belle 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)
  • belle in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norman

Pronunciation

Adjective

belle

  1. feminine singular of bieau
  2. feminine singular of biau

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bellā, from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbel.le/, [ˈbeɫ.ɫe]

Noun

belle f

  1. bell
    • late 10th century, Ælfric, "St. Benedict, Abbot"

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: belle
    • Scots: bell
    • English: bell
      • → Fiji Hindi: belo
      • → Japanese: ベル (beru)
      • → Korean: 벨 (bel)

Turkish

Verb

belle

  1. second-person singular imperative of bellemek

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