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Is frail a Scrabble word?

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

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Is frail a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is frail a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word frail is a Words With Friends word. The word frail is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (3 found)

FILAR,FLAIR,FRAIL,

4-letter words (14 found)

ALIF,ARIL,FAIL,FAIR,FARL,FIAR,FILA,FLIR,LAIR,LARI,LIAR,LIRA,RAIL,RIAL,

3-letter words (12 found)

AIL,AIR,ALF,ARF,FAR,FIL,FIR,FRA,LAR,RAI,RIA,RIF,

2-letter words (7 found)

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

You can make 36 words from frail according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of frail

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

Definitions and meaning of frail

frail

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɹeɪl/
  • Rhymes: -eɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English frele, fraill, from Old French fraile, from Latin fragilis. Cognate to fraction, fracture, and doublet of fragile.

Adjective

frail (comparative frailer, superlative frailest)

  1. Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.
  2. Weak; infirm.
  3. (medicine) In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.
  4. Mentally fragile.
  5. Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
Derived terms
  • frail sister
  • frailly
  • frailness
Related terms
Translations

Noun

frail (plural frails)

  1. (dated, slang) A girl.

Verb

frail (third-person singular simple present frails, present participle frailing, simple past and past participle frailed)

  1. To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.

Etymology 2

From Middle English frayel, from Old French frael, fraiel, of unknown origin; possibly a dissimilatory variant of flael, flaiel (“flail”).

Noun

frail (plural frails)

  1. A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins.
  2. The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail.
  3. A rush for weaving baskets.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

frail (plural frails)

  1. Synonym of farasola (“old unit of weight”)

References

  • Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “frail”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

Etymology 4

Noun

frail (plural frails)

  1. (England, dialectal, obsolete) Synonym of flail.

References

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

Anagrams

  • filar, flair

Source: wiktionary.org