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Is flail a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word flail is a Scrabble US word. The word flail is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is flail a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word flail is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

F4L1A1I1L1

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Yes. The word flail is a Words With Friends word. The word flail is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

FLAIL,

4-letter words (5 found)

ALIF,FAIL,FALL,FILA,FILL,

3-letter words (5 found)

AIL,ALF,ALL,FIL,ILL,

2-letter words (6 found)

AI,AL,FA,IF,LA,LI,

You can make 17 words from flail according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of flail

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Definitions and meaning of flail

flail

Etymology

From Middle English flayle, from earlier fleil, fleyl, fleȝȝl, from Old English fligel, *flegel (“flail”), from Proto-West Germanic *flagil, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots flail (“a thresher's flail”), West Frisian fleil, flaaiel (“flail”), Dutch vlegel (“flail”), German Flegel (“flail”). Possibly a native Germanic word from Proto-Germanic *flagilaz (“whip”), from Proto-Germanic *flag-, *flah- (“to whip, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k- (“to beat, hit, strike; weep”); compare Old Norse flaga (“sudden attack, bout”), Lithuanian plàkti (“to whip, lash, flog”), Ancient Greek πληγνύναι (plēgnúnai, “strike, hit, encounter”), Latin plangō (“lament”, i.e. “beat one's breast”) + Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (instrumental suffix). If so, related also to English flag, flack, flacker.

Alternatively, Proto-West Germanic *flagil may be an early borrowing of Latin flagellum (“winnowing tool, thresher”), diminutive of flagrum (“scourge, whip”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlag-, *bʰlaǵ- (“to beat”); compare Old Norse blekkja (“to beat, mistreat”). Compare also Old French flael (“flail”), Walloon flayea (“flail”) (locally pronounced "flai"), Italian flagello (“scourge, whip, plague”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fleɪl/
  • (dialectal, archaic) IPA(key): /fɹeɪl/ (see frail)
  • Rhymes: -eɪl

Noun

flail (plural flails)

  1. A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle (handstock) with a shorter stick (swipple or swingle) attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
    Synonyms: frail (obsolete), thrashel, threshel
  2. A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
    Coordinate term: nunchaku

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Verb

flail (third-person singular simple present flails, present participle flailing, simple past and past participle flailed)

  1. (transitive) To beat using a flail or similar implement.
  2. (transitive) To wave or swing vigorously
    Synonym: thrash
  3. (transitive) To thresh.
  4. (intransitive) To move like a flail.

Derived terms

  • flail about

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References

Further reading

  • flail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Flail in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • Filla, alfil

Source: wiktionary.org