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Is locale a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word locale is a Scrabble US word. The word locale is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is locale a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word locale is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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Is locale a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word locale is a Words With Friends word. The word locale is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

LOCALE,

5-letter words (3 found)

CELLA,CELLO,LOCAL,

4-letter words (15 found)

ALCO,ALEC,ALOE,CALL,CALO,CELL,COAL,COLA,COLE,COLL,LACE,LEAL,LOCA,OLEA,OLLA,

3-letter words (12 found)

ACE,ALE,ALL,CAL,CEL,COL,ECO,ELL,LAC,LEA,OCA,OLE,

2-letter words (7 found)

AE,AL,EA,EL,LA,LO,OE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 39 words from locale according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of locale

locale

Etymology

From French local (adj), nominal use of the adjective.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ləʊˈkɑːl/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːl
  • (US) IPA(key): /loʊˈkæl/
  • Rhymes: -æl

Noun

locale (plural locales)

  1. The place where something happens.
    Being near running water and good shade, the explorers decided it was a good locale for setting up camp.
  2. (computing) The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.
  3. (mathematics) A partially ordered set with the following additional axiomatic properties: any finite subset of it has a meet, any arbitrary subset of it has a join, and distributivity, which states that a binary meet distributes with respect to an arbitrary join. (Note: locales are just like frames except that the category of locales is opposite to the category of frames.)

Hyponyms

  • (mathematics): spatial locale

Derived terms

  • locale-aware
  • locale-awareness

Translations

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɔ.kal/

Adjective

locale

  1. feminine singular of local

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /loˈka.le/
  • Rhymes: -ale
  • Hyphenation: lo‧cà‧le

Adjective

locale (plural locali)

  1. local

Noun

locale m (plural locali)

  1. room

Related terms

  • località
  • localizzare
  • localmente
  • locare
  • locativo
  • luogo

Anagrams

  • alcole

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /loˈkaː.le/, [ɫ̪ɔˈkäːɫ̪ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /loˈka.le/, [loˈkäːle]

Adjective

locāle

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of locālis

References

  • locale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Source: wiktionary.org