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Is colonel a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word colonel is a Scrabble US word. The word colonel is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is colonel a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word colonel is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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Is colonel a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word colonel is a Words With Friends word. The word colonel is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

COLONEL,

6-letter words (1 found)

COLONE,

5-letter words (3 found)

CELLO,CLONE,COLON,

4-letter words (18 found)

CELL,CLON,COLE,COLL,CONE,COOL,COON,ENOL,LENO,LOCO,LONE,LOON,NOEL,NOLE,NOLL,NOLO,OLEO,ONCE,

3-letter words (13 found)

CEL,COL,CON,COO,ECO,ELL,EON,LOO,NOO,OLE,ONE,ONO,OON,

2-letter words (8 found)

EL,EN,LO,NE,NO,OE,ON,OO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 45 words from colonel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of colonel

colonel

Alternative forms

  • coronel (obsolete)
  • col., Col. (abbreviation)

Etymology

First attested 1548, from Middle French coronnel, from Old Italian colonnello (“the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment”), from compagnia colonnella (“little column company”), from Latin columna (“pillar”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), o-grade form from a Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent”). See hill, holm.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɜːnəl/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɝnəl/
  • Homophone: kernel
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl

The anomalous pronunciation is probably a holdover of the pronunciation of the earlier, obsolete form coronel.

Noun

colonel (plural colonels)

  1. A commissioned officer in an armed military organization, typically the highest rank before flag officer ranks (generals). It is generally found in armies, air forces or naval infantry (marines).

Usage notes

  • When used as a title, it is always capitalized.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • colonelcy
  • colonel-general
  • royal colonel

Translations

Verb

colonel (third-person singular simple present colonels, present participle coloneling or colonelling, simple past and past participle coloneled or colonelled)

  1. (intransitive) To act as or like a colonel.

French

Alternative forms

  • colonnel, coronel, coronnel (obsolete)

Etymology

From Italian colonnello. Compare Middle French coronel, borrowed earlier from the same source. See English colonel for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ.lɔ.nɛl/

Noun

colonel m (plural colonels, feminine colonelle)

  1. a colonel, highest commissioned officer below generals
  2. an ice cream dessert consisting of lemon sherbet and vodka

Related terms

  • colonel-général
  • lieutenant-colonel

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French colonel, from Middle French coronel, which see.

Noun

colonel m (plural colonei)

  1. colonel (military officer above lieutenant-colonel and below all generals)
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Kolonel.

Noun

colonel n (uncountable)

  1. glyph (a letter in a type of font)
Declension

Source: wiktionary.org