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Is entail a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word entail is a Scrabble US word. The word entail is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

E1N1T1A1I1L1

Is entail a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word entail is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

E1N1T1A1I1L1

Is entail a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word entail is a Words With Friends word. The word entail is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

E1N2T1A1I1L2

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6-letter words (3 found)

ENTAIL,TENAIL,TINEAL,

5-letter words (16 found)

ALIEN,ALINE,ANILE,ELAIN,ELINT,ENLIT,ENTIA,INLET,INTEL,LATEN,LEANT,LENTI,LIANE,TELIA,TENIA,TINEA,

4-letter words (39 found)

AINE,ALIT,ANIL,ANTE,ANTI,EINA,ELAN,ETNA,ILEA,LAIN,LANE,LANT,LATE,LATI,LEAN,LEAT,LENT,LIEN,LINE,LINT,LITE,NAIL,NEAL,NEAT,NITE,TAEL,TAIL,TAIN,TALE,TALI,TANE,TEAL,TEIL,TEIN,TELA,TIAN,TILE,TINA,TINE,

3-letter words (36 found)

AIL,AIN,AIT,ALE,ALT,ANE,ANI,ANT,ATE,EAN,EAT,ELT,ETA,ITA,LAT,LEA,LEI,LET,LIE,LIN,LIT,NAE,NAT,NET,NIE,NIL,NIT,TAE,TAI,TAN,TEA,TEL,TEN,TIE,TIL,TIN,

2-letter words (18 found)

AE,AI,AL,AN,AT,EA,EL,EN,ET,IN,IT,LA,LI,NA,NE,TA,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 113 words from entail according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of entail

entail

Alternative forms

  • intail (archaic)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛnˈteɪl/, /ɪnˈteɪl/, /ənˈteɪl/
  • Rhymes: -eɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English entaillen, from Old French entaillier, entailler (“to notch”, literally “to cut in”); from prefix en- + tailler (“to cut”), from Late Latin taliare, from Latin talea. Compare late Latin feudum talliatum (“a fee entailed, i.e., curtailed or limited”).

Verb

entail (third-person singular simple present entails, present participle entailing, simple past and past participle entailed)

  1. (transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.
    This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
  2. (transitive) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
    • 1754-1762, David Hume, The History of England
      Allowing them to entail their estates.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
Derived terms
  • entailment
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Etymology 2

From Middle English entaille (“carving”), from Old French entaille (“incision”), from the verb entailler. See above.

Noun

entail (plural entails)

  1. That which is entailed.
    • 1754-1762, David Hume, The History of England
      A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates.
    1. An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
    2. The rule by which the descent is fixed.
  2. (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
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Anagrams

  • Latine, Ta-lien, Talien

Source: wiktionary.org