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Is hail a Scrabble word?

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

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Is hail a Scrabble UK word?

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

H4A1I1L1

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4-letter words (2 found)

HAIL,HILA,

3-letter words (3 found)

AHI,AIL,LAH,

2-letter words (7 found)

AH,AI,AL,HA,HI,LA,LI,

You can make 12 words from hail according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of hail

hail ahil hial ihal aihl iahl hali ahli hlai lhai alhi lahi hila ihla hlia lhia ilha liha ailh ialh alih laih ilah liah

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word hail. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in hail.

Definitions and meaning of hail

hail

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hāl, IPA(key): /heɪl/, [heɪ̯ɫ]
  • Rhymes: -eɪl
  • Homophone: hale

Etymology 1

From Middle English hayle, haile, hail, hawel, haghil, haȝel, from Old English hæġl, hæġel, hagol (“hail”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagl, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz, of uncertain origin. Either from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰlos (“pebble”); or, from *ḱoḱló-, a reduplication of *ḱel- (“cold”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hail (“hail”), West Frisian heil (“hail”), Dutch hagel (“hail”), Low German Hagel (“hail”), German Hagel (“hail”), Danish hagl (“hail”), Swedish hagel (“hail”), Icelandic hagl (“hail”). Compare also Old Norse héla (“frost”).

Root-cognates outside of Germanic include Welsh caill (“testicle”), Breton kell (“testicle”), Lithuanian šešėlis (“shade, shadow”), Ancient Greek κάχληξ (kákhlēx, “pebble”), Albanian çakëll (“pebble”), Sanskrit शिशिर (śíśira, “cool, cold”).

Noun

hail (countable and uncountable, plural hails)

  1. (meteorology, uncountable) Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
  2. (meteorology, countable) An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.
  3. (countable, by extension) A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

From Middle English haylen, haulien, hawelien, from Old English hagolian, hagalian (“to hail”), from Proto-West Germanic *haglōn, from Proto-Germanic *haglōną (“to hail”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Saterland Frisian hailje (“to hail”), West Frisian heilje (“to hail”), Dutch hagelen (“to hail”), German Low German hageln (“to hail”), German hageln (“to hail”), Danish hagle (“to hail”), Swedish hagla (“to hail”), Norwegian Nynorsk hagle, hagla (“to hail”), Faroese hegla (“to hail”), Icelandic hagla (“to hail”).

Verb

hail (third-person singular simple present hails, present participle hailing, simple past and past participle hailed)

  1. (impersonal) For hailstones to fall from the sky.
  2. (intransitive) To send or release hail.
  3. To pour down in rapid succession.
Derived terms
  • hail down
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English heil (“healthy, sound”), from Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, entire, healthy”). The verb is from Middle English heilen, itself from the adjective. Doublet of whole, hale, and heil.

Adjective

hail (comparative hailer, superlative hailest)

  1. (obsolete) Healthy, whole, safe.

Verb

hail (third-person singular simple present hails, present participle hailing, simple past and past participle hailed)

  1. (transitive) To greet; give salutation to; salute.
  2. (transitive) To name; to designate; to call.
  3. (transitive) To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.
    1. (transitive, by extension, UK, Australia) To indicate, from a designated stop or otherwise, to the driver of a public transport vehicle that one wishes to board and travel on the vehicle, usually using hand signals such as waving.
  4. (transitive) To signal in order to initiate communication with.
  5. (transitive) In the game of uppies and downies, to throw (the ball) repeatedly up and down at the goal location, in order to score a point.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • wassail
Translations

Interjection

hail

  1. (archaic or poetic) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
Derived terms
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Anagrams

  • Hlai, hila

Estonian

Noun

hail

  1. adessive singular of hai

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /halʲ/

Noun

hail

  1. h-prothesized form of ail

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hail (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of hayle (“hail”)

Etymology 2

Adjective

hail

  1. Alternative form of heil (“healthy, sound”)

Noun

hail (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of heil (“health, welfare”)

Scots

Etymology 1

From Old English hāl (“healthy, safe”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”).

Alternative forms

  • hale

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hel]
  • (South Scots) IPA(key): [hjɛl]

Adjective

hail (comparative hailer, superlative hailest)

  1. whole
  2. free or recovered from disease, healthy, wholesome
  3. free from injury, safe, sound, unhurt (of people, parts of the body, etc.)
  4. whole, entire, complete, sound, unbroken, undamaged (of material objects and of time, numbers etc.)
Derived terms

Noun

hail (plural hails)

  1. the whole, the whole amount or number

Verb

hail (third-person singular simple present hails, present participle hailin, simple past hailt, past participle hailt)

  1. to heal, cure

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hel]

Verb

hail (third-person singular simple present hails, present participle hailin, simple past hailt, past participle hailt)

  1. (sports) to drive the ball through the goal, etc.
Derived terms
  • ower hail (“to overtake”)

Noun

hail (plural hails)

  1. (sports) goal, the shout when a goal is scored, the goal area

Etymology 3

From Old English hæġl, hæġel, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz, either from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰlos (“pebble”), or from *ḱoḱló-, a reduplication of *ḱel- (“cold”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hel]

Noun

hail (uncountable)

  1. (weather) hail, hailstones
  2. small shot, pellets
Derived terms
  • hailie-pickle (“hailstone”)
  • hailstane (“hailstone”)

Turkish

Alternative forms

  • hâil

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish حائل (hail), from Arabic حَائِل (ḥāʔil). An Ottoman Turkish homophone from Arabic هَائِل (hāʔil) did not survive to modern Turkish.

Noun

hail (definite accusative haili, plural hailler) (obsolete)

  1. obstacle
    Synonym: engel

References

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ha'il¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1838
  • Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “hâil”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 373
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hai̯l/
  • Rhymes: -ai̯l

Adjective

hail

  1. h-prothesized form of ail (“second”)

Mutation


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