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Is canaille a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word canaille is a Scrabble US word. The word canaille is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is canaille a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word canaille is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

C3A1N1A1I1L1L1E1

Is canaille a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word canaille is a Words With Friends word. The word canaille is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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8-letter words (3 found)

ALLIANCE,ANCILLAE,CANAILLE,

7-letter words (2 found)

ANCILLA,CANELLA,

6-letter words (12 found)

AECIAL,ALLICE,ANCILE,ANELLI,ANLACE,CAILLE,CALLAN,CLINAL,INLACE,LAICAL,LIENAL,LINEAL,

5-letter words (25 found)

AECIA,ALANE,ALIEN,ALINE,ANCLE,ANILE,CALLA,CANAL,CELLA,CELLI,CLEAN,CLINE,ELAIN,ENIAC,ILEAC,ILEAL,INCEL,INCLE,LANAI,LANCE,LIANA,LIANE,LILAC,LINAC,NALLA,

4-letter words (36 found)

ACAI,ACNE,AINE,ALAE,ALAN,ALEC,ANAL,ANCE,ANIL,CAIN,CALL,CANE,CEIL,CELL,CIEL,CILL,CINE,CLAN,EINA,ELAN,ILEA,LACE,LAIC,LAIN,LANA,LANE,LEAL,LEAN,LICE,LIEN,LINE,NAIL,NALA,NEAL,NICE,NILL,

3-letter words (27 found)

AAL,ACE,AIA,AIL,AIN,ALA,ALE,ALL,ANA,ANE,ANI,CAA,CAL,CAN,CEL,EAN,ELL,ICE,ILL,LAC,LEA,LEI,LIE,LIN,NAE,NIE,NIL,

2-letter words (13 found)

AA,AE,AI,AL,AN,EA,EL,EN,IN,LA,LI,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 119 words from canaille according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of canaille

canaille

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French canaille.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˈnaɪ/, /kəˈneɪl/

Noun

canaille (countable and uncountable, plural canailles)

  1. (countable, collective) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commonalty
    • 1865, John Ruskin, "Of Kings' Treasuries", Unto This Last and Other Writings, Penguin: New York (1997), p. 262
      [...] whatever language he knows, he knows precisely; whatever word he pronounces, he pronounces rightly; above all, he is learned in the peerage of words; knows the words of true descent and ancient blood, at a glance, from words of modern canaille; [...]
  2. (uncountable, Canada) Shorts or inferior flour.

References

  • “canaille”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Alliance, alliance, ancillae

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • kanalje (archaic, superseded)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French canaille, from Italian canaglia. From the sixteenth century onwards.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌkaːˈnɑ.jə/
  • Hyphenation: ca‧nail‧le

Noun

canaille n (plural canailles)

  1. (uncountable) plebs, scum, riffraff
  2. (countable) rascal, jerk, scumbag

Descendants

  • → Sranan Tongo: kanari
  • → West Frisian: kanalje

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French canaille, from Italian canaglia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.naj/, /ka.nɑj/

Noun

canaille f (plural canailles)

  1. (archaic) rabble (collectively)
  2. rascal, blackguard, scoundrel, scum

Derived terms

  • encanaillement
  • encanailler

Descendants

  • → Danish: kanalje
  • → English: canaille
  • → Esperanto: kanajlo
  • → Finnish: kanalja
  • → German: Canaille
  • Haitian Creole: kannay

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • alliance

Source: wiktionary.org