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Is dell a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dell is a Scrabble US word. The word dell is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Is dell a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dell is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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Yes. The word dell is a Words With Friends word. The word dell is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

DELL,

3-letter words (4 found)

DEL,ELD,ELL,LED,

2-letter words (3 found)

DE,ED,EL,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 9 words from dell according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dell

dell edll dlel ldel eldl ledl dell edll dlel ldel eldl ledl dlle ldle dlle ldle llde llde elld leld elld leld lled lled

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word dell. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in dell.

Definitions and meaning of dell

dell

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dĕl, IPA(key): /dɛl/
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō (“a hollow”), related to *dalą (“valley, dale”).

Noun

dell (plural dells)

  1. A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.
    • 1794, William Blake, The Little Girl Found, lines 49-50
      To this day they dwell
      In a lonely dell.
Synonyms
  • dale
  • dingle
  • vale
  • valley
  • See also Thesaurus:valley
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Origin obscure. Originally thieves' cant. Compare Dutch del (“trollop, floozie”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

dell (plural dells)

  1. (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
Derived terms
  • arch dell
  • wapping dell

References

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *daislā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-slo (compare Latin fīlum, Lithuanian gýsla, Serbo-Croatian žȉla).

Noun

dell m (plural dej, definite delli, definite plural dejtë)

  1. (anatomy) tendon
  2. sinew

Declension

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Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ظِلّ (ẓill).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛll/

Noun

dell m (plural dellijiet or dliel)

  1. shade, shadow

Manx

Verb

dell (verbal noun dellal)

  1. to negotiate, deal, trade, traffic

Mutation

Middle English

Noun

dell

  1. Alternative form of delle

Vietnamese

Etymology

From the company name Dell, which has the similar pronunciation.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛw˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛw˨˩˦]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛw˦˥]
  • Phonetic: đéo

Adverb

dell

  1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of đéo

Yola

Preposition

dell

  1. Alternative form of del

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 17

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