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Yes. The word fable is a Scrabble US word. The word fable is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (1 found)

FABLE,

4-letter words (11 found)

ABLE,ALBE,ALEF,BAEL,BALE,BEAL,BLAE,FEAL,FLAB,FLEA,LEAF,

3-letter words (11 found)

ALB,ALE,ALF,BAE,BAL,BEL,ELF,FAB,FAE,LAB,LEA,

2-letter words (11 found)

AB,AE,AL,BA,BE,EA,EF,EL,FA,FE,LA,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 35 words from fable according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of fable

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Definitions and meaning of fable

fable

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French fable, from Latin fābula, from fārī (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”). See ban, and compare fabulous, fame. Doublet of fabula.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: fā′bəl, IPA(key): /ˈfeɪbəl/
  • Rhymes: -eɪbəl
  • Hyphenation: fa‧ble

Noun

fable (plural fables)

  1. A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
    Synonym: morality play
  2. Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
    Synonym: legend
  3. Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
  4. The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

Derived terms

  • have a fable for (may be etymologically unrelated)
  • personal fable
  • fabulist

Related terms

  • fabulous (equivalent to fable +‎ -ous but actually derived from Latin fābulōsus (“celebrated in fable”))

Translations

Verb

fable (third-person singular simple present fables, present participle fabling, simple past and past participle fabled)

  1. (intransitive, archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
    • 1852, Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, Act II, in Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems, London: B. Fellowes, p. 50,[1]
      He fables, yet speaks truth.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.
    Synonyms: make up, invent, feign, devise

Derived terms

  • fabler

Translations

Further reading

  • “fable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • befal

French

Wikisource fr

Etymology

Inherited from Old French fable, borrowed from Latin fabula.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fabl/

Noun

fable f (plural fables)

  1. fable, story
    Synonyms: conte, histoire

Related terms

  • affabulation

Descendants

  • → Turkish: fabl

Further reading

  • “fable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the noun fabel, ultimately from Latin fabula, from fā(rī) (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɑːblə/

Verb

fable (imperative fabl or fable, present tense fabler, passive fables, simple past and past participle fabla or fablet)

  1. to fantasize, dream
    fable om suksess
    dream about success

Derived terms

  • fabel

References

  • “fable” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the noun fabel, ultimately from Latin fabula, from fā(rī) (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɑːblə/

Verb

fable (imperative fabl, present tense fablar, simple past and past participle fabla)

  1. to fantasize, dream
    fable om suksess
    dream about success
  2. to make up (something)

Derived terms

  • fabel

References

  • “fable” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fabula.

Noun

fable oblique singular, f (oblique plural fables, nominative singular fable, nominative plural fables)

  1. fable, story

Synonyms

  • conte
  • estoire

Descendants

  • Middle French: fable
    • French: fable
  • → Middle Dutch: fabele
    • Dutch: fabel
  • → Middle English: fable
    • English: fable
  • → Middle High German: fabele
    • German: Fabel

Source: wiktionary.org