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Is envelope a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word envelope is a Scrabble US word. The word envelope is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

E1N1V4E1L1O1P3E1

Is envelope a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word envelope is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

E1N1V4E1L1O1P3E1

Is envelope a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word envelope is a Words With Friends word. The word envelope is worth 17 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

E1N2V5E1L2O1P4E1

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8-letter words (1 found)

ENVELOPE,

7-letter words (1 found)

ENVELOP,

6-letter words (3 found)

ELEVEN,ELEVON,ENLEVE,

5-letter words (12 found)

EEVEN,ELOPE,ELPEE,ELVEN,LEONE,LEVEE,NEELE,NEVEL,NOVEL,PEEVE,PELON,PLEON,

4-letter words (31 found)

EEVN,ENOL,EPEE,EVEN,EVOE,LEEP,LENO,LEVE,LEVO,LONE,LOPE,LOVE,NEEP,NEVE,NOEL,NOLE,NOPE,OLPE,OPEN,OVEL,OVEN,PEEL,PEEN,PELE,PENE,PEON,POLE,PONE,VEEP,VELE,VOLE,

3-letter words (22 found)

EEL,EEN,ENE,EON,EVE,EVO,LEE,LEP,LEV,LOP,NEE,NEP,OLE,ONE,OPE,PEE,PEL,PEN,POL,VEE,VOE,VOL,

2-letter words (11 found)

EE,EL,EN,LO,NE,NO,OE,ON,OP,PE,PO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 82 words from envelope according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of envelope

envelope

Etymology 1

From French enveloppe. The engineering sense is derived from flight envelope. The verb is from the noun.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛn.və.ləʊp/, (chiefly a wrapping) /ˈɒn.və.ləʊp/, (dated) /ˈɑ̃.və.ləʊp/
  • (General American) enPR: ĕn′vəlōp', än′vəlōp'; IPA(key): /ˈɛn.vəˌlop/, /ˈɑn.vəˌlop/

Noun

envelope (plural envelopes)

  1. A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
  2. Something that envelops; a wrapping.
    Synonym: wrapper
  3. A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
    Synonym: gasbag
  4. (geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
  5. (electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
  6. (music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
  7. (networking) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
    Synonym: header
  8. (biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
  9. (engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
    push the envelope
  10. (astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
  11. An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
Derived terms
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Verb

envelope (third-person singular simple present envelopes, present participle enveloping, simple past and past participle enveloped)

  1. (transitive, rare) To put (something) in an envelope.

See also

  • Wikipedia article on envelopes used for mailing
  • Wikipedia article on envelopes in geometry

Etymology 2

See envelop.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ĕn-vĕl'əp, IPA(key): /ɛnˈvɛləp/
  • for audio, see envelop

Verb

envelope (third-person singular simple present envelopes, present participle enveloping, simple past and past participle enveloped)

  1. Archaic form of envelop.

References

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French enveloppe, from envelopper.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: en‧ve‧lo‧pe

Noun

envelope m (plural envelopes)

  1. envelope

Verb

envelope

  1. inflection of envelopar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “envelope” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Source: wiktionary.org