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

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

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7-letter words (1 found)

GENTILE,

6-letter words (9 found)

EELING,ELEGIT,ENGILT,GENTIL,GENTLE,LEEING,LENITE,TEEING,TINGLE,

5-letter words (19 found)

EIGNE,ELINT,ELITE,ENLIT,GENET,GENIE,GILET,GLEET,GLENT,GLINT,INGLE,INLET,INTEL,LEGIT,LENTI,LIEGE,LIGNE,TENGE,TINGE,

4-letter words (33 found)

EINE,ETEN,GEIT,GELT,GENE,GENT,GIEN,GILT,GITE,GLEE,GLEI,GLEN,GLIT,LEET,LENG,LENT,LIEN,LINE,LING,LINT,LITE,NETE,NITE,TEEL,TEEN,TEIL,TEIN,TELE,TENE,TIGE,TILE,TINE,TING,

3-letter words (35 found)

EEL,EEN,ELT,ENE,ENG,GEE,GEL,GEN,GET,GIE,GIN,GIT,ING,LEE,LEG,LEI,LET,LIE,LIG,LIN,LIT,NEE,NEG,NET,NIE,NIL,NIT,TEE,TEG,TEL,TEN,TIE,TIG,TIL,TIN,

2-letter words (11 found)

EE,EL,EN,ET,GI,IN,IT,LI,NE,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 109 words from gentile according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gentile

gentile

Alternative forms

  • Gentile

Etymology

Borrowed from French gentil (“gentile”), from Latin gentīlis (“of or belonging to the same people or nation”), a semantic loan from Hebrew גוי, morphologically from gēns (“clan; tribe; people, family”) + adjective suffix -īlis (“-ile”). Doublet of gentle, genteel, and jaunty. See also gens, gender, genus, and generation.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛntaɪl/
  • Rhymes: -aɪl
  • Hyphenation: gen‧tile

Adjective

gentile (not comparable)

  1. Non-Jewish.
    Synonyms: non-Jewish, goyish
  2. Heathen, pagan.
  3. (Mormonism) Non-Mormon.
  4. Relating to a clan, tribe, or nation; clannish, tribal, national.
  5. Of or pertaining to a gens or several gentes.
  6. (grammar) Of a part of speech such as an adjective, noun or verb: relating to a particular city, nation or country.

Derived terms

  • gentilic
  • gentilical
  • gentilically

Related terms

  • genteel

Translations

Noun

gentile (plural gentiles)

  1. A non-Jewish person.
    Synonyms: non-Jew, goy
  2. (Mormonism) A non-Mormon person.
  3. (grammar) A noun derived from a proper noun which denotes something belonging to or coming from a particular city, nation, or country.

Hypernyms

  • (grammar): noun

Translations

See also

  • (grammar): patronymic

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒenˈti.le/
  • Rhymes: -ile
  • Hyphenation: gen‧tì‧le

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin gentīlis.

Adjective

gentile (plural gentili, superlative gentilissimo)

  1. kind, courteous
  2. gentle
  3. lovely
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
  • gentile1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

From Latin gentīlis (“heathen, pagan”).

Noun

gentile m (plural gentili)

  1. gentile (a non-Jewish person)
Derived terms
  • gentilesco
  • gentilesimo
Related terms
  • gentilità

Adjective

gentile (plural gentili)

  1. (literary) gentile (non-Jewish)
Further reading
  • gentile2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ɡenˈtiː.le/, [ɡɛn̪ˈt̪iːɫ̪ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /d͡ʒenˈti.le/, [d͡ʒen̪ˈt̪iːle]

Adjective

gentīle

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of gentīlis

References

  • gentile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Swedish

Adjective

gentile

  1. definite natural masculine singular of gentil

Source: wiktionary.org