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Is grille a Scrabble word?

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

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Is grille a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Yes. The word grille is a Words With Friends word. The word grille is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (2 found)

GILLER,GRILLE,

5-letter words (4 found)

GRILL,ILLER,LIGER,RILLE,

4-letter words (9 found)

GILL,GIRL,GLEI,LEIR,LIER,LIRE,RIEL,RILE,RILL,

3-letter words (14 found)

ELL,ERG,GEL,GER,GIE,ILL,IRE,LEG,LEI,LIE,LIG,REG,REI,RIG,

2-letter words (5 found)

EL,ER,GI,LI,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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

Definitions and meaning of grille

grille

Etymology

Borrowed from French grille.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɹɪl/
  • Rhymes: -ɪl
  • Homophone: grill

Noun

grille (plural grilles)

  1. Alternative form of grill (only in the senses of "grating over opening", "grating on the front of a vehicle", and "window divider")

Anagrams

  • Giller

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡʁij/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French grille, grisle, from Old French greille, graïlle, from earlier gradilie (end of 10th century), from Latin crāticula (or a Vulgar Latin graticula).

Noun

grille f (plural grilles)

  1. bars; railings; rack; grate
    grille de fenêtre ― window bars
    grille d’un fourneau ― oven rack
    grilles d’une prison ― prison bars
  2. gate (with bars)
  3. grid
    grilles de sudoku ― sudoku grids
    grille de mots croisés ― crossword grid
    Ci-joint la grille d’évaluation. ― Attachment: assessment grid.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → English: grille, grill
  • → Italian: griglia

Etymology 2

Verb

grille

  1. inflection of griller:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

Verb

grille

  1. inflection of grillen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Limburgish

Alternative forms

  • chrèlle
  • chrille
  • gkrèlle
  • gkrille
  • grèlle

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch grillen, itself borrowed from English grill. Displaced older steinreustere.

Verb

grille

  1. to grill

Conjugation

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English grel (“harsh”). Compare German grell (“lurid, shrill”).

Adjective

grille

  1. gril, harsh, severe
    • c. 1370s. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose. 71-4.

Descendants

  • English: gril

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

grille (imperative grill, present tense griller, passive grilles, simple past and past participle grilla or grillet, present participle grillende)

  1. to grill (food, in a grill)
  2. (figuratively) to grill (subject someone to intense questioning)

Related terms

  • grill

References

  • “grille” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Spanish

Verb

grille

  1. inflection of grillar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org