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

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

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5-letter words (4 found)

DWALE,LAWED,WALED,WEALD,

4-letter words (14 found)

ALEW,AWDL,AWED,DALE,DEAL,DEAW,LADE,LEAD,LEWD,WADE,WALD,WALE,WEAL,WELD,

3-letter words (17 found)

ALE,AWE,AWL,DAE,DAL,DAW,DEL,DEW,ELD,LAD,LAW,LEA,LED,LEW,WAD,WAE,WED,

2-letter words (12 found)

AD,AE,AL,AW,DA,DE,EA,ED,EL,EW,LA,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 48 words from dwale according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of dwale

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Definitions and meaning of dwale

dwale

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dweɪl/
  • Rhymes: -eɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English dwale (“stupor; deception; delusion, evil”), from Old English dwala, dwola (“error, heresy; doubt; madman, deceiver, heretic”) and Old Norse dvala (“sleep, stupor”).

Noun

dwale (countable and uncountable, plural dwales)

  1. Belladonna or a similar soporific plant.
  2. (archaic) A sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna.
  3. (dialect) A torpor.
  4. A bugbear.

Etymology 2

From Middle English dwalen, from Old English dwalian, from Proto-Germanic *dwalōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwelH- (“to make turbid”).

Verb

dwale (third-person singular simple present dwales, present participle dwaling, simple past and past participle dwaled)

  1. (dialectal) To mutter deliriously.
Related terms
  • dwaal — a dreamy, dazed, or absent-minded state

References

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

Anagrams

  • Wadle, Weald, lawed, waled, weald

Dutch

Verb

dwale

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of dwalen

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *thwāla, *twēla, *thweila, from Proto-West Germanic *þwahilu.

Noun

dwâle f or m

  1. cloth
  2. towel

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

  • dwêle
  • *dweile

Descendants

  • Dutch: dwaal, dweil
  • Limburgish: dweiel

Further reading

  • “dwale”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “dwale (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • duale, duole, dwole

Etymology

From Old English dwala, dwola; reinforced and semantically influenced by Old Norse dvala.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdwaːl(ə)/

Noun

dwale (plural dwales)

  1. A stupor or trance; torpor.
  2. Belladonna or a similar soporific plant.
  3. A sleeping draught, especially if made from belladonna.
  4. An evil individual; a wrongdoer.
  5. (rare) Evil; wrongdoing.
  6. (rare) A delusion or deception.

Descendants

  • English: dwale
  • >? Scots: dwall

References

  • “dwāle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Source: wiktionary.org