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Is mantle a Scrabble word?

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

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Is mantle a Scrabble UK word?

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

M3A1N1T1L1E1

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

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6-letter words (4 found)

LAMENT,MANTEL,MANTLE,MENTAL,

5-letter words (8 found)

AMENT,LATEN,LEANT,LEMAN,MANET,MEANT,MENTA,METAL,

4-letter words (35 found)

ALME,AMEN,ANTE,ELAN,ETNA,LAME,LANE,LANT,LATE,LEAM,LEAN,LEAT,LENT,MALE,MALT,MANE,MATE,MEAL,MEAN,MEAT,MELA,MELT,MENT,META,NAME,NEAL,NEAT,NEMA,TAEL,TALE,TAME,TANE,TEAL,TEAM,TELA,

3-letter words (33 found)

ALE,ALT,AME,ANE,ANT,ATE,EAN,EAT,ELM,ELT,ETA,LAM,LAT,LEA,LET,MAE,MAL,MAN,MAT,MEL,MEN,MET,MNA,NAE,NAM,NAT,NET,TAE,TAM,TAN,TEA,TEL,TEN,

2-letter words (17 found)

AE,AL,AM,AN,AT,EA,EL,EM,EN,ET,LA,MA,ME,NA,NE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 98 words from mantle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of mantle

mantle

Etymology

From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel (“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *mantil; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman mantel, both from Latin mantēllum (“covering, cloak”), diminutive of mantum (French manteau, Spanish manto), probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”). Compare Icelandic möttull.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmæn.təl/
  • Rhymes: -æntəl
  • Homophone: mantel

Noun

mantle (plural mantles)

  1. A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. [from 9th c.]
    Coordinate term: (mantle worn by the pope) mantum
  2. (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
  3. (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak. [from 9th c.]
  4. (malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted. [from 15th c.]
    • 1990, Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals, page 71:
      He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle.
  5. (ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
  6. The zone of hot gases around a flame.
  7. A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.) [from 19th c.]
  8. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
  9. A penstock for a water wheel.
  10. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex. [from 19th c.]
  11. (geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust. [from 20th c.]
  12. Alternative spelling of mantel (“shelf above fireplace”)
  13. (heraldry) A mantling.

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Translations

Verb

mantle (third-person singular simple present mantles, present participle mantling, simple past and past participle mantled)

  1. (transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
  2. (intransitive) To become covered or concealed. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. (intransitive) To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
  4. To climb over or onto something.
  5. (falconry) The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.
  6. (falconry) The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.

References

Further reading

  • gas mantle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • mantle (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • mantle (mollusc) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Lament., lament, manlet, mantel, mental

Middle English

Noun

mantle

  1. Alternative form of mantel

Source: wiktionary.org