1. Home
  2. Scrabble Dictionary. Word Meaning and Points

Bile in Scrabble Dictionary

Lookup Word Points and Definitions

What does bile mean? Is bile a Scrabble word?

How many points in Scrabble is bile worth? bile how many points in Words With Friends? What does bile mean? Get all these answers on this page.

Scrabble® and Words with Friends® points for bile

See how to calculate how many points for bile.

Is bile a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word bile is a Scrabble US word. The word bile is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

B3I1L1E1

Is bile a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word bile is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

B3I1L1E1

Is bile a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word bile is a Words With Friends word. The word bile is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

B4I1L2E1

Our tools

Valid words made from Bile

You can make 10 words from 'bile' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.


4 letters words from 'bile'

BILE 6 

3 letters words from 'bile'

BEL 5LEI 3
LIB 5LIE 3

2 letters words from 'bile'

BE 4BI 4
EL 2LI 2

All 4 letters words made out of bile

bile ible blie lbie ilbe libe biel ibel beil ebil iebl eibl blei lbei beli ebli lebi elbi ileb lieb ielb eilb leib elib

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

Definitions and meaning of bile

bile

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baɪl/
  • Rhymes: -aɪl

Etymology 1

Mid 16th century, via Middle French, from Latin bīlis (“bile”).

Noun

bile (usually uncountable, plural biles)

  1. A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
  2. Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
  3. Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
Synonyms
  • gall
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Obsolete form of boil. Akin to Dutch buil and German Beule, all from Proto-Germanic *būlǭ.

Noun

bile (plural biles)

  1. (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).

Verb

bile (third-person singular simple present biles, present participle biling, simple past and past participle biled)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of boil.
    • 1912, Stella George Stern Perry, Melindy (page 130)
      We pretty near biled ourselves and Miss Euly done got her bes' pink apron stained, an' I dropped Sis Suky's big kitchen spoon in de hogshead of sand […]

Anagrams

  • -ible, Lieb

Albanian

Etymology

Either related to bolle, or a singularized plural of *bilë, from Proto-Albanian *beila, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyH- (“to strike, beat”), in which case close to Proto-Germanic *bilją (“spike, peg, nail, axe, sword, blade”). Compare English bill, German Bille (“axe”).

Noun

bile f

  1. penis

Related terms

  • bolle

French

Etymology

From Latin bilis

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bil/

Noun

bile f (uncountable)

  1. bile

Derived terms

  • bile jaune
  • bile noire
  • se faire de la bile

Further reading

  • “bile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʲɪlʲə/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bile, from Proto-Celtic *belyom (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”).

Noun

bile m (genitive singular bile, nominative plural bilí)

  1. tree, especially a large, ancient, sacred one
  2. scion; distinguished person
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See béal (“lip”)

Noun

bile m (genitive singular bile, nominative plural bilí)

  1. rim (of vessel)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

  • "bile" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 bile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Italian

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin bīlis (“bile”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbi.le/

Noun

bile f (plural bili)

  1. (physiology) bile
  2. anger

Derived terms

See also

  • fiele

Anagrams

  • beli

Latin

Noun

bīle

  1. ablative singular of bīlis

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /²biːl.ə/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German bīle (“axe”).

Noun

bile f or m (definite singular bila or bilen, indefinite plural biler, definite plural bilene)

  1. An axe, espescially a broadaxe

Etymology 2

From bil.

Verb

bile (present tense biler, past tense bilte, past participle bilt)

  1. To ride a car

References

“bile” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /²biːl.ə/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German bīle (“axe”).

Noun

bile f (definite singular bila, indefinite plural biler, definite plural bilene)

  1. An axe, espescially a broadaxe

Etymology 2

From bil.

Verb

bile (present tense bilar or biler, past tense bila or bilte, past participle bila or bilt)

  1. To ride a car

References

“bile” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolyo- (“leaf”). Cognate with Latin folium, Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon), and Old Armenian բողբոջ (bołboǰ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʲilʲe/

Noun

bile m (genitive bili, nominative plural bili)

  1. tree, especially a large, ancient, sacred one

Declension

Derived terms

  • bilech, biledach

Descendants

Mutation

References

  • Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 bile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bilis.

Noun

bile f (uncountable)

  1. gall; bile
    Synonyms: fel, bílis

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbile]

Noun

bile f

  1. indefinite plural of bilă
  2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of bilă

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bél (“lip”). Related to beul.

Noun

bile f (genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

  1. lip (of mouth)
  2. rim (of container)
  3. brim (of hat)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bill.

Noun

bile m (genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

  1. bill (for law)

References

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • bilèsi

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بیله‎ (bile) (Turkish bile).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bǐle/
  • Hyphenation: bi‧le

Adverb

bìle (Cyrillic spelling бѝле)

  1. (regional) moreover, even

Participle

bile (Cyrillic spelling биле)

  1. feminine plural active past participle of biti

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بیله‎ (bile), from Proto-Turkic *bile (“with, together, also”).

Conjunction

bile

  1. neither, even

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch bile or Middle Low German bîle, bîl (“axe”), both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bilją.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbilə/

Noun

bile c (plural bilen, diminutive byltsje)

  1. axe

Further reading

  • “bile”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English boillen, from Old French boillir. It's a vulgar pronunciation in Ireland.

Verb

bile (simple past bilethe or bilo't)

  1. to boil

References

  • Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, →ISBN

Source: wiktionary.org
  • a fluid secreted by the liver.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)