You can make 4 words from leg according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 3 letters words made out of leg
leg elg lge gle egl gel
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word leg. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in leg.
Definitions and meaning of leg
leg
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishleg, legge, from Old Norseleggr(“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic*lagjaz, *lagwijaz(“leg, thigh”) (see it for more).
Cognate with Scotsleg(“leg”), Icelandicleggur(“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmållegg(“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsklegg(“leg”), Swedishlägg(“leg, shank, shaft”), Danishlæg(“leg”), Lombardiclagi(“thigh, shank, leg”), Latinlacertus(“limb, arm”), Persianلنگ(leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank).
Pronunciation
(UK, US) IPA(key): /lɛɡ/
(some US dialects) IPA(key): /leɪɡ/
Rhymes: -ɛɡ
Noun
leg (plurallegs)
A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
(anatomy) The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
(figurative) Something that supports.
A stage of a journey, race etc.
(nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
(nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
(sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
(geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
(geometry) One of the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle.
(geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
(usually in the plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
(UK, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
(cricket, attributive)Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
Synonym:on; Antonym:off
(telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
(electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
(finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
(US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
(archaic) A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg.
(journalism) A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
Synonym of leg up(“forming a step for a person's feet with one's hands”)
(gambling) An individual bet in a parlay (a series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward).
Alternative forms
legge(obsolete)
Synonyms
(part of garment that covers a leg):pant leg, pantleg(Canada, US)
(side of a right triangle):cathetus
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Finnish: legi
→ Hungarian: leg
Translations
See also
Verb
leg (third-person singular simple presentlegs, present participlelegging, simple past and past participlelegged)
To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
Derived terms
leg it
References
Etymology 2
Noun
leg (plural not attested)
Alternative spelling of leg.
Adjective
leg (not comparable)
Alternative spelling of leg.
Further reading
“leg”, in Collins English Dictionary.
“leg”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“leg”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
“leg”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.