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Is guile a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word guile is a Scrabble US word. The word guile is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is guile a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word guile is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

G2U1I1L1E1

Is guile a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word guile is a Words With Friends word. The word guile is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

GUILE,

4-letter words (6 found)

GLEI,GLUE,GULE,IGLU,LIEU,LUGE,

3-letter words (11 found)

GEL,GIE,GUE,GUL,LEG,LEI,LEU,LIE,LIG,LUG,ULE,

2-letter words (5 found)

EL,GI,GU,LI,UG,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 24 words from guile according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of guile

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Definitions and meaning of guile

guile

Etymology 1

From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile (“deception”), from Frankish *wigila (“ruse”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą, from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with wile.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡaɪl/
  • Rhymes: -aɪl
  • Hyphenation: guile

Noun

guile (countable and uncountable, plural guiles)

  1. (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
  2. Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
Translations

Verb

guile (third-person singular simple present guiles, present participle guiling, simple past and past participle guiled)

  1. To deceive, beguile, bewile.
Derived terms
  • beguile
  • guileful
  • guileless
Related terms
  • wile
Translations

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Noun

guile

  1. Obsolete form of gold.
  2. Alternative form of gyle

References

Old French

Etymology

From Frankish *wigila, from Proto-Germanic *wīlą, from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”).

Noun

guile oblique singular, f (oblique plural guiles, nominative singular guile, nominative plural guiles)

  1. trickery; deception

Descendants

  • English: guile

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (guile)

Source: wiktionary.org