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Is gravel a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gravel is a Scrabble US word. The word gravel is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is gravel a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gravel is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

G2R1A1V4E1L1

Is gravel a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word gravel is a Words With Friends word. The word gravel is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

GRAVEL,

5-letter words (10 found)

ARGLE,GAVEL,GLARE,GRAVE,LAGER,LARGE,LAVER,RAVEL,REGAL,VELAR,

4-letter words (28 found)

AGER,AREG,ARLE,AVEL,AVER,EARL,EGAL,GALE,GARE,GAVE,GEAL,GEAR,GRAV,LAER,LARE,LAVE,LEAR,LEVA,RAGE,RALE,RAVE,REAL,VALE,VARE,VEAL,VEGA,VELA,VERA,

3-letter words (26 found)

AGE,ALE,ARE,AVE,EAR,ERA,ERG,GAE,GAL,GAR,GEL,GER,LAG,LAR,LAV,LEA,LEG,LEV,RAG,RAV,REG,REV,VAE,VAG,VAR,VEG,

2-letter words (9 found)

AE,AG,AL,AR,EA,EL,ER,LA,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 75 words from gravel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gravel

gravel

Etymology

From Middle English gravel, grauel, from Old French gravele, diminutive of grave (“gravel, seashore”), from Medieval Latin grava, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *grāwā (“gravel, pebbles”) (compare Breton groa, Cornish grow, Welsh gro), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰroh₁weh₂, from *gʰreh₁w- (“to grind”). Compare also Old English græfa (“coal”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɹævəl/
  • Rhymes: -ævəl

Noun

gravel (usually uncountable, plural gravels)

  1. (uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
  2. A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
  3. (uncountable, geology) A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
    Coordinate terms: (>256 mm) boulder, (64–256 mm) cobble, (62.5 μm – 2 mm) sand, (3.9–62.5 μm) silt, (0.98–3.9 μm) clay, (0.95–977 nm) colloid
  4. (uncountable, archaic) Kidney stones; a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
  5. A lameness in the foot of a horse, usually caused by an abscess.
  6. (rare) Inability to see at night; night blindness.
  7. (uncountable, cycling) gravel cycling, a discipline in cycling different from road cycling, mountain biking or cyclocross, for a large part on gravel roads, typically with a dedicated gravel bike

Synonyms

  • (small stones or pebbles): chisel/chessil
  • (calculus deposit): stones, gallstones

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See also

  • alluvium

Verb

gravel (third-person singular simple present gravels, present participle gravelling or graveling, simple past and past participle gravelled or graveled)

  1. (transitive) To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
  2. (transitive) To puzzle or annoy.
  3. (transitive) To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
    • 1605, William Camden, “Grave Speeches and wittie Apothegms of worthy Personages of this Realm in former times,” in Remaines Concerning Britain, London: Simon Miller, sixth impression, 1657, p. 243, [4]
      William Conqerour when he invaded this Iland, chanced at his arrival to be gravelled, and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand, that he fell to the ground.
  4. (transitive) To check or stop; to confound; to perplex.
    • 1579, Sir Thomas North, tr., Plutarch's Lives, The Life of Marcus Antonius:
      The physician was so gravelled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say.
  5. (transitive) To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
  6. (transitive, slang, archaic) To prostrate; to beat to the ground.

Usage notes

  • In North American English, the forms graveled and graveling are more common.

Translations

Anagrams

  • glaver

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English gravel.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: gra‧vel

Noun

gravel m or n (uncountable)

  1. claycourt (surface for playing tennis)

Italian

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from gravel. First attested in 2015.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɡrɛˈvɔl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔl

Noun

gravel f (invariable)

  1. durable bicycle capable of riding over gravel or other hard terrain; mountain bike

Noun

gravel m or f (invariable)

  1. bicycling competition on gravel or other hard terrain

Adjective

gravel (invariable)

  1. (relational) mountain bike

Scots

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English grauayle, from Old French gravele (“sand”).

Noun

gravel (plural gravelis)

  1. (Middle Scots) sand, gravel
  2. (Middle Scots, in the plural) pebbles
  3. the disease so named

Source: wiktionary.org