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Is jeel a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word jeel is a Scrabble US word. The word jeel is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

J8E1E1L1

Is jeel a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word jeel is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

J8E1E1L1

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4-letter words (1 found)

JEEL,

3-letter words (3 found)

EEL,JEE,LEE,

2-letter words (2 found)

EE,EL,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 7 words from jeel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of jeel

jeel ejel jeel ejel eejl eejl jele ejle jlee ljee elje leje jele ejle jlee ljee elje leje eelj eelj elej leej elej leej

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

Definitions and meaning of jeel

jeel

Etymology 1

Noun

jeel (plural jeels)

  1. Alternative form of jheel (“wetland area in India”)

Etymology 2

Manx jeeyl, jeeill ("damage"), cognate to Irish díobháil.

Noun

jeel

  1. (Isle of Man) Damage; harm.
    • 1908, Cushag (Josephine Kermode), Eunys, Or the Dalby Maid, page 16:
      An' first an' last upon the flure, an' spinnin' at the wheel,
      But that strange silence on her still of what had done the jeel.
    • 1924, Sophia Morrison, Edmund Goodwin, A vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx dialect,
      page 73, entry "Govvag":
      The jeel (damage) the govags is doin to the nets is urrov all marcy.
      page 188, entry "Traa-dy-liooar":
      An' the wan (one) that's doin all the jeel (damage) is wickad Traa-dy-liooar (Time-enough). (Cushag.)

Further reading

  • William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “jeel”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes III (Hoop–O), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *jele, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu. Cognates include German gelb and West Frisian giel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jeːl/
  • Hyphenation: jeel
  • Rhymes: -eːl

Adjective

jeel (masculine jelen, feminine, plural or definite jele, comparative jeler, superlative jeelst)

  1. yellow

References

  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “jeel”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

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