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Is gallon a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gallon is a Scrabble US word. The word gallon is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is gallon a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gallon is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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

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6-letter words (2 found)

GALLON,GOLLAN,

5-letter words (5 found)

ALONG,ANGLO,LLANO,LOGAN,LONGA,

4-letter words (9 found)

AGON,GALL,GAOL,GOAL,LANG,LOAN,LONG,NOLL,OLLA,

3-letter words (10 found)

AGO,ALL,GAL,GAN,GOA,GON,LAG,LOG,NAG,NOG,

2-letter words (9 found)

AG,AL,AN,GO,LA,LO,NA,NO,ON,

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

Definitions and meaning of gallon

gallon

Etymology

From Middle English gallon, galoun, galun, from Old Northern French galun, galon (“liquid measure”) (compare Old French jalon), from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish [Term?], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix, “cup”), Sanskrit कलश (kalaśa, “jar, pitcher; measure of liquid”). Related to Old French gille (“wine measure”) (from Medieval Latin gillō (“earthenware jar”)), Old French jale (“bowl”), Old French jaloie (“measure of capacity”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡælən/
  • Rhymes: -ælən
  • Hyphenation: gal‧lon

Noun

gallon (plural gallons)

  1. A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints
  2. (British, Canada) exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon
  3. (US) 231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon")
  4. (US) one-eighth of a U.S. bushel or approximately 4.405 liters for dry goods (a "U.S. dry gallon").
  5. (in the plural, informal) A large quantity (of any liquid).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Cebuano: galon
  • → Czech: galon
  • → Portuguese: galão
  • → Serbo-Croatian: galon
  • → Swahili: galoni
  • → Turkish: galon

Translations

Further reading

  • gallon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Loglan

French

Noun

gallon m (plural gallons)

  1. gallon

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡɒlːon]
  • Hyphenation: gal‧lon

Etymology 1

An internationalism via English gallon.

Noun

gallon (plural gallonok)

  1. gallon (a unit of volume)
Declension

Etymology 2

gall (“Gallic; Gaul”) +‎ -on (“on”, superessive suffix)

Adjective

gallon

  1. superessive singular of gall

Noun

gallon

  1. superessive singular of gall

References

Norman

Etymology

From Old Northern French galon, from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish [Term?], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”).

Noun

gallon m (plural gallons)

  1. (Jersey) gallon

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Noun

gallon

  1. gallon (a unit of volume)

Declension

References

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Source: wiktionary.org