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Is channel a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word channel is a Scrabble US word. The word channel is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is channel a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word channel is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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Yes. The word channel is a Words With Friends word. The word channel is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

CHANNEL,

6-letter words (1 found)

CANNEL,

5-letter words (11 found)

ANCLE,CANEH,CHELA,CLEAN,HANCE,HENNA,LANCE,LANCH,LEACH,NACHE,NANCE,

4-letter words (20 found)

ACHE,ACNE,ALEC,ANCE,CANE,CANN,CHAL,CLAN,EACH,ELAN,HAEN,HALE,HEAL,LACE,LANE,LEAN,LECH,NACH,NANE,NEAL,

3-letter words (21 found)

ACE,ACH,ALE,ANE,ANN,CAL,CAN,CEL,CHA,CHE,EAN,ECH,HAE,HAN,HEN,LAC,LAH,LEA,NAE,NAH,NAN,

2-letter words (14 found)

AE,AH,AL,AN,CH,EA,EH,EL,EN,HA,HE,LA,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 69 words from channel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of channel

channel

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃænəl/
  • Hyphenation: chan‧nel
  • Rhymes: -ænəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin canālis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.

Noun

channel (plural channels)

  1. The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
    The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.
  2. The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
    A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
  3. The navigable part of a river.
    We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
  4. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
    The English Channel lies between France and England.
  5. Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
    The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
  6. (biochemistry) An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
  7. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
  8. (construction, mechanical engineering) A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
  9. (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
    The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
  10. (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
  11. (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
    A channel stretches between them.
  12. (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
    We are using one of the 24 channels.
  13. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
    The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
  14. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
    Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.
  15. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
    KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
  16. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
    NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
    • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
      TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns), […]
  17. (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
    This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.
  18. The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
    The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
  19. (business, marketing) A distribution channel
  20. (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
  21. (Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.
  22. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
Synonyms
  • (narrow body of water between two land masses) passage, sound, strait
  • (for television) side (dated British, from when there were only two channels), station (US)
  • (groove, as in a fluted column) groove, gutter
  • (structural member) C-channel
Derived terms
Related terms
  • canal
Descendants
  • → Japanese: チャンネル (channeru)
  • → Korean: 채널 (chaeneol)
  • → Welsh: sianel
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English chanelen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

channel (third-person singular simple present channels, present participle channeling or channelling, simple past and past participle channelled or channeled)

  1. (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
  2. (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
    We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
  3. (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
    She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
  4. (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
    He was trying to channel President Reagan, but the audience wasn't buying it.
    When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.
Derived terms
  • backchannel
Translations

Etymology 3

From a corruption of chainwale.

Noun

channel (plural channels)

  1. (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.

References

  • “channel”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Source: wiktionary.org