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Is league a Scrabble word?

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

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Is league a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is league a Words With Friends word?

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

LEAGUE,

5-letter words (2 found)

AGLEE,EAGLE,

4-letter words (14 found)

AGEE,AGLU,AGUE,ALEE,EALE,EGAL,EUGE,GALE,GEAL,GLEE,GLUE,GULA,GULE,LUGE,

3-letter words (20 found)

AGE,ALE,ALU,AUE,EAU,EEL,GAE,GAL,GAU,GEE,GEL,GUE,GUL,LAG,LEA,LEE,LEG,LEU,LUG,ULE,

2-letter words (9 found)

AE,AG,AL,EA,EE,EL,GU,LA,UG,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 47 words from league according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of league

league

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liːɡ/
  • Rhymes: -iːɡ

Etymology 1

From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin ligō (“I tie”).

Noun

league (countable and uncountable, plural leagues)

  1. A group or association of cooperating members.
  2. (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
  3. (informal, rugby, uncountable) Ellipsis of rugby league.
  4. (chiefly in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
  5. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).
  6. (military) An alliance or coalition.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • ally
  • alliance
Descendants
  • → Japanese: リーグ (rīgu)
  • → Korean: 리그 (rigeu)
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Verb

league (third-person singular simple present leagues, present participle leaguing, simple past and past participle leagued)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English lege (“league”), from Late Latin leuca, leuga (“the Gaulish mile”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lougā (compare Middle Breton leau, lew, Breton lev / leo (“league”)).

Noun

league (plural leagues)

  1. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
    • 1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47
      Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.
  2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
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References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “league”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  • Middle English Dictionary, lege

Source: wiktionary.org