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

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

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4-letter words (2 found)

BOLE,LOBE,

3-letter words (4 found)

BEL,LOB,OBE,OLE,

2-letter words (6 found)

BE,BO,EL,LO,OB,OE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 13 words from bole according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of bole

bole oble bloe lboe olbe lobe boel obel beol ebol oebl eobl bleo lbeo belo eblo lebo elbo oleb loeb oelb eolb leob elob

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

Definitions and meaning of bole

bole

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /bol/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəʊl/, /bɒʊl/
  • Rhymes: -əʊl
  • Homophone: bowl

Etymology 1

From Middle English bole, from Old Norse bolr, akin to Danish bul and German Bohle (“plank”). See also bulwark (“defensive wall”).

Noun

bole (plural boles)

  1. The trunk or stem of a tree.
Translations

Etymology 2

Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos, “clod or lump of earth”): compare French bol. Doublet of bolus.

Noun

bole (countable and uncountable, plural boles)

  1. Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
  2. The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
  3. (obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
Derived terms
  • Armenian bole

Etymology 3

Noun

bole (plural boles)

  1. Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).

Etymology 4

Noun

bole (plural boles)

  1. (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
  2. (Scotland) A small closet.

Anagrams

  • Belo, Lebo, Loeb, lobe

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • bolle

Etymology

Variant of bolle. Occurs exclusively in the plural form.

Noun

bole m pl

  1. testicles

Related terms

  • bile
  • ballë
  • mbjell
  • pjell

Buol

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔɺ̢ɛ/

Noun

bole

  1. house

Czech

Alternative forms

  • boleje (verb)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbolɛ]
  • Rhymes: -olɛ
  • Hyphenation: bo‧le

Etymology 1

Noun

bole

  1. vocative singular of bol

Etymology 2

Verb

bole

  1. present masculine singular transgressive of bolet

Dama (Sierra Leone)

Etymology

Perhaps related to Vai [script needed] (boi, “structure without walls”) or Mende bolo (“courthouse with high walls”) (having the definite form bolei.

Noun

bole

  1. courthouse

References

  • Dalby, T. D. P. (1963) “The extinct language of Dama”, in Sierra Leone Language Review, volume 2, Freetown: Fourah Bay College, pages 50–54

Galician

Verb

bole

  1. third-person singular present indicative of bulir
  2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of bulir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latvian

Etymology

From English bowl, probably via German Bowle. Alternative historical forms: bols. First attested use to mean a bowl for making punch – 1880. First attested use to refer to the beverage itself – 1886.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [būōle]

Noun

bole f (5th declension)

  1. (dated sense) a bowl for making punch
    Bowle: bole (punša un citu tādu dzērienu kauss) – Bowle (German): bole (a bowl for punch or similar drinks).
  2. punch (drink made of wine, diluted with juices, syrups and fruit, often with added cognac or rhum)
    zemeņu bole – strawberry punch
    boles trauks – punch bowl

Declension

Synonyms

  • (punch): punšs

References

Lower Sorbian

Verb

bole

  1. Superseded spelling of bóle.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From a mixture of Old English bula, *bulla, and Old Norse boli, both from Proto-Germanic *bulô.

Alternative forms

  • bule, bul, bolle, boule, bool, boole

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbul(ə)/, /ˈbuːl(ə)/, /ˈbɔːl(ə)/

Noun

bole (plural boles or bolen)

  2. bull, steer, male cow
  3. (heraldry) A heraldic bull
  4. (astrology) Taurus (zodiac)
  5. (astronomy) Taurus (constellation)
Related terms
  • bullok
Descendants
  • English: bull
  • Scots: bul, bull

References

  • “bōle, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse bolr.

Alternative forms

  • boole, bol

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔːl/

Noun

bole (plural boles)

  2. trunk, bole
  3. tree
Descendants
  • English: bole

References

  • “bōle, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Portuguese

Verb

bole

  1. inflection of bolar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of bulir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

bole (Cyrillic spelling боле)

  1. feminine plural active past participle of bosti

West Makian

Etymology

From Malay boleh (“can, may, possible”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbo.l̪e/

Interjection

bole

  1. good, fine!

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[2], Pacific linguistics

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