Duel in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Duel

You can make 15 words from 'duel' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'duel'
• 3 letters words from 'duel'
• 2 letters words from 'duel'

4 letters words from 'duel'

DUEL 5	DULE 5
LEUD 5	LUDE 5

3 letters words from 'duel'

DEL 4	DUE 4
ELD 4	LED 4
LEU 3	LUD 4
ULE 3

2 letters words from 'duel'

DE 3	ED 3
EL 2

Definitions and meaning of duel

duel

Etymology

From Medieval Latin duellum (“fight between two men”), under influence from Latin duo, from Old Latin duellum (whence Latin bellum (“war”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dāu-, *dəu- *dū- (“to injure, destroy, burn”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdjuːəl/
• (General American) enPR: d(y)o͞oʹəl, IPA^(key): /ˈd(j)uəl/
• Homophone: dual
• Rhymes: -uːəl, -ʊəl
• Hyphenation: du‧el

Noun

duel (plural duels)

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1. Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
2. Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat)
3. Any struggle between two contending persons, groups or ideas.

Translations

Verb

duel (third-person singular simple present duels, present participle (US) dueling or (UK) duelling, simple past and past participle (US) dueled or (UK) duelled)

1. To engage in a battle.

Related terms

• duellist
• duello
• truel

Translations

See also

dual

Anagrams

• ULed, leud, lude, lued

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Catalan

Etymology

From Medieval Latin duellum (“fight between two men”), under influence from Latin duo, from Old Latin duellum (whence Latin bellum (“war”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dāu-, *deu- (“to injure, destroy, burn”).

Noun

duel m (plural duels)

1. duel

Derived terms

• duelista

Further reading

• “duel” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “duel” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “duel” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “duel” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Danish

Etymology

From Latin duellum (“war”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duɛl/, [d̥uˈɛlˀ]

Noun

duel c (singular definite duellen, plural indefinite dueller)

1. duel

Inflection

Synonyms

• tvekamp

Derived terms

• duellere

Further reading

• duel on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• duwel (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French duel, from Latin duellum (“duel; war”), archaic form of bellum (“war”). In Mediaeval Latin the meaning shifted from “war” to “duel” because of folk etymology associating it with duo (“two”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dyˈ(ʋ)ɛl/
• Hyphenation: du‧el
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

duel n (plural duels, diminutive duelletje n)

1. A duel.

Synonyms

• tweegevecht
• tweekamp

Derived terms

• duelleren
• duellist

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin duālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɥɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɥɛl

Adjective

duel (feminine singular duelle, masculine plural duels, feminine plural duelles)

1. dual (having two components)

Related terms

• dualité

Noun

duel m (plural duels)

1. duel (battle)
2. (grammar) dual

Further reading

• “duel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Old French

Alternative forms

• dol

Etymology

Probably from Late Latin dolus, from Latin dolor (“pain”), or from Vulgar Latin *dolium, from Latin cordolium (“sorrow of the heart”), from dolor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dwel/, [dwøl]

Noun

duel m (oblique plural dueus or duex or duels, nominative singular dueus or duex or duels, nominative plural duel)

1. sadness; grief; sorrow
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Son plor et son duel demenant

Descendants

• French: deuil
• Norman: deu

Source: wiktionary.org

• to fight formally.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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