1. Home
  2. Scrabble Dictionary. Word Meaning and Points

Eale in Scrabble and Meaning

Lookup Word Points and Definitions

What does eale mean? Is eale a Scrabble word?

How many points in Scrabble is eale worth? eale how many points in Words With Friends? What does eale mean? Get all these answers on this page.

Scrabble® and Words with Friends® points for eale

See how to calculate how many points for eale.

Is eale a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word eale is a Scrabble US word. The word eale is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

E1A1L1E1

Is eale a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word eale is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

E1A1L1E1

Is eale a Words With Friends word?

The word eale is NOT a Words With Friends word.

Our tools

Valid words made from Eale

Jump to...

Results

4-letter words (2 found)

ALEE,EALE,

3-letter words (4 found)

ALE,EEL,LEA,LEE,

2-letter words (6 found)

AE,AL,EA,EE,EL,LA,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 13 words from eale according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of eale

eale aele elae leae alee laee eael aeel eeal eeal aeel eael elea leea eela eela leea elea alee laee aele eale leae elae

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

Definitions and meaning of eale

eale

Noun

eale (countable and uncountable, plural eales)

  1. Obsolete form of ale.
  2. Alternative form of yale (mythical beast)

References

Anagrams

  • alee

Estonian

Noun

eale

  1. allative singular of iga

Latin

Alternative forms

  • eocle

Etymology

Wanderwort. Believed to ultimately derive from Hebrew יעל.

Noun

eale f

  1. A mythical African beast, based perhaps on the rhinoceros; the yale.
    • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.73:
      Apud eōsdem et quae vocātur eale, magnitūdine equī fluviātīlis, caudā elephantī, colōre nigrā vel fulvā, māxillīs aprī, maiōra cubitālibus cornua habēns mobilia quae alterna in pugnā sē sistunt variēque īnfēsta aut oblīqua, utcumque ratiō mōnstrāvit.
      Among the same people there’s also the beast that is called yale, of the size of a hippopotamus, with the tail of an elephant, of black or yellow colour, with the jaws of a boar, having movable horns longer than a cubit which in fight are raised alternatively, either forwards or obliquely, as need be.

Declension

Not known; only attested in the nominative singular. Dictionaries give the following declension based on the analogy of other nouns ending in -e:

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

References

  • “eale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “eale” in volume V 2, column 2, line 17 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

Middle English

Noun

eale

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of hele (“health”)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈe̯ale/

Verb

eale

  1. inflection of eallit:
    1. present indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative
    3. imperative connegative

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English ele, from Old English ǣl, from Proto-West Germanic *āl.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iːɫ/

Noun

eale (plural eales)

  1. eel

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 37

Source: wiktionary.org