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Is caille a Scrabble word?

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

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Is caille a Scrabble UK word?

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

C3A1I1L1L1E1

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6-letter words (2 found)

ALLICE,CAILLE,

5-letter words (5 found)

CELLA,CELLI,ILEAC,ILEAL,LILAC,

4-letter words (11 found)

ALEC,CALL,CEIL,CELL,CIEL,CILL,ILEA,LACE,LAIC,LEAL,LICE,

3-letter words (13 found)

ACE,AIL,ALE,ALL,CAL,CEL,ELL,ICE,ILL,LAC,LEA,LEI,LIE,

2-letter words (7 found)

AE,AI,AL,EA,EL,LA,LI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 39 words from caille according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of caille

caille

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French quaille.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaj/, /kɑj/

Adjective

caille (plural cailles)

  1. multicoloured, spotted
    • 1881, "Le boute-selle" in French Nursery Rhymes, Librarie Hachette & cie, page 25:

Noun

caille f (plural cailles)

  1. quail

Synonyms

  • (Louisiana) perdrix

Derived terms

  • caille des blés
  • roi des cailles

Verb

caille

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

Further reading

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

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkal͈ʲe/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pallium. Doublet of paillium.

Noun

caille n

  1. veil
    Synonym: bréit
Inflection
Descendants
  • Middle Irish: caille
    • Irish: caille

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

caille f

  1. genitive singular of caill

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