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What does galilee mean? Is galilee a Scrabble word?

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Is galilee a Scrabble word?

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

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Is galilee a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is galilee a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word galilee is a Words With Friends word. The word galilee is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

GALILEE,

6-letter words (1 found)

ALLEGE,

5-letter words (8 found)

AGILE,AGLEE,ALLEE,EAGLE,GLIAL,ILEAL,LEGAL,LIEGE,

4-letter words (14 found)

AGEE,ALEE,EALE,EGAL,GALE,GALL,GEAL,GILA,GILL,GLEE,GLEI,GLIA,ILEA,LEAL,

3-letter words (19 found)

AGE,AIL,ALE,ALL,EEL,ELL,GAE,GAL,GEE,GEL,GIE,ILL,LAG,LEA,LEE,LEG,LEI,LIE,LIG,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AG,AI,AL,EA,EE,EL,GI,LA,LI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 54 words from galilee according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of galilee

galilee

Etymology

From late Middle English galilie, from Old French galilee, from Medieval Latin galilaea, from Latin Galilaea (“Galilee”). Possibly the allusion is to Galilee being an outlying region of Biblical Palestine.

Noun

galilee (plural galilees)

  1. (architecture) A narthex, particularly in the United Kingdom and the Church of England; a vestibule, a fully-enclosed yet porch-like structure, leading to the main body of an English ecclesiastical building.
  2. In certain Syriac Christian churches, the baptistry.

References

  • John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “galilee”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Italian

Noun

galilee

  1. plural of galilea

Source: wiktionary.org