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Is idle a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word idle is a Scrabble US word. The word idle is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Is idle a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word idle is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

I1D2L1E1

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Yes. The word idle is a Words With Friends word. The word idle is worth 6 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (6 found)

DEIL,DELI,DIEL,EILD,IDLE,LIED,

3-letter words (9 found)

DEI,DEL,DIE,ELD,IDE,LED,LEI,LID,LIE,

2-letter words (6 found)

DE,DI,ED,EL,ID,LI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 22 words from idle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of idle

idle

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: īʹd(ə)l, IPA(key): /ˈaɪd(ə)l/
  • (Canada, idle-idol split) IPA(key): /ˈʌɪdəl/
  • Rhymes: -aɪdəl
  • Homophones: idol, idyll, idyl (US pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Middle English idel, ydel, from Old English īdel, from Proto-West Germanic *īdal, from Proto-Germanic *īdalaz. Cognate with Dutch ijdel (“vain, meaningless”), ijl (“rareified, skinny”), iel (“thin, slender”); German Low German iedel (“vain, idle”); German eitel (“vain, conceited”); and possibly Old Norse illr ("bad"; > English ill).

Adjective

idle (comparative more idle, superlative most idle)

  1. (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
    Synonyms: bare, leer, void
  2. Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
    Synonyms: dormant, quiescent, suspended; see also Thesaurus:inactive
  3. Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
    Synonyms: unbusied, workless; see also Thesaurus:obsolete, Thesaurus:unemployed
  4. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
    Synonyms: indolent, inert; see also Thesaurus:lazy
  5. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
    Synonyms: petty, pointless; see also Thesaurus:insignificant
  6. (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
    Synonyms: fatuous, unwise; see also Thesaurus:foolish
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

From Middle English idelen, from Old English īdlian, from Proto-West Germanic *īdalēn. Cognate with German eiteln (“to make empty, free up”).

Verb

idle (third-person singular simple present idles, present participle idling, simple past and past participle idled)

  1. (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
  2. (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
  3. (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
  4. (transitive) To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
Derived terms
Related terms
  • (sense 3) idling speed
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English idel, ydel, from Old English īdel (“idleness”), from the adjective (see above).

Noun

idle (plural idles)

  1. The state of idling, of being idle.
  2. (mechanical engineering) The lowest selectable thrust or power setting of an engine.
    Synonyms: full throttle, wide open
    a lumpy idle
  3. (gaming) An idle animation.
  4. (gaming) An idle game.
    Synonyms: idle game, incremental game
Hyponyms
  • flight idle
  • ground idle

References

  • idle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “idle”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
  • “idle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Diel, Lide, deli, diel, eild, lied

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈidle/ [ˈið̞.le]
  • Rhymes: -idle
  • Syllabification: id‧le

Verb

idle

  1. second-person plural imperative of ir combined with le

Source: wiktionary.org