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Is coil a Scrabble word?

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

C3O1I1L1

Is coil a Scrabble UK word?

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

C3O1I1L1

Is coil a Words With Friends word?

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

C4O1I1L2

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4-letter words (2 found)

COIL,LOCI,

3-letter words (2 found)

COL,OIL,

2-letter words (4 found)

IO,LI,LO,OI,

You can make 8 words from coil according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of coil

coil ocil ciol icol oicl iocl coli ocli cloi lcoi olci loci cilo iclo clio lcio ilco lico oilc iolc olic loic iloc lioc

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Definitions and meaning of coil

coil

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /kɔɪl/
  • (Appalachians, obsolete) IPA(key): /kwaɪl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English coilen, from Old French coillir, cuillir (“to gather, pluck, pick, cull”) (modern French cueillir), from Latin colligō (“to gather together”), past participle collectus, from com- (“together”) + legō (“to gather”); compare legend. Doublet of cull.

Noun

coil (plural coils)

  1. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
  2. Any intrauterine device (abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
  3. (electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
    Synonym: inductor
  4. A cylinder of clay.
  5. (figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Japanese: コイル (koiru)
Translations

Verb

coil (third-person singular simple present coils, present participle coiling, simple past and past participle coiled)

  1. To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
  2. To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
  3. To wind cylindrically or spirally.
  4. To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
  5. (obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
    • a. 1757, Thomas Edwards, sonnet to Mr. Nathanael Mason
      Pleasure coil thee in her dangerous snare
Derived terms
  • coil up
Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

coil (plural coils)

  1. (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
    • a. 1738, Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux, and John Ozell (translators), François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
      And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]
Derived terms
  • mortal coil
Translations

References

Further reading

  • “coil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “coil”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Clio, coli, loci

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kɛlʲ]

Noun

coil m

  1. vocative/genitive singular of col (“prohibition; sin, lust; violation; dislike; incest; relation, relationship”)

Noun

coil m

  1. inflection of col (“col”):
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

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