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Yes. The word measles is a Scrabble US word. The word measles is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is measles a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word measles is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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

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7-letter words (1 found)

MEASLES,

6-letter words (9 found)

EASELS,EASLES,EASSEL,LEASES,MEASES,MEASLE,MESELS,SEAMES,SESAME,

5-letter words (36 found)

ALMES,EALES,EASEL,EASES,EASLE,LAMES,LASES,LEAMS,LEASE,LEMES,LESES,MALES,MASES,MASSE,MEALS,MEASE,MELAS,MESAL,MESAS,MESEL,MESES,SALES,SALSE,SAMEL,SAMES,SEALS,SEAME,SEAMS,SEASE,SEELS,SEEMS,SELES,SEMES,SLAES,SLAMS,SMEES,

4-letter words (52 found)

ALEE,ALES,ALME,ALMS,AMES,EALE,EASE,EELS,ELMS,ELSE,EMES,ESES,ESSE,LAME,LAMS,LASE,LASS,LEAM,LEAS,LEES,LEME,LESS,MAES,MALE,MALS,MASE,MASS,MEAL,MEES,MELA,MELS,MESA,MESE,MESS,SALE,SALS,SAME,SAMS,SEAL,SEAM,SEAS,SEEL,SEEM,SEES,SELE,SELS,SEME,SESE,SLAE,SLAM,SLEE,SMEE,

3-letter words (29 found)

ALE,ALS,AME,ASS,EAS,EEL,ELM,ELS,EME,EMS,ESS,LAM,LAS,LEA,LEE,LES,MAE,MAL,MAS,MEE,MEL,MES,SAE,SAL,SAM,SEA,SEE,SEL,SMA,

2-letter words (12 found)

AE,AL,AM,AS,EA,EE,EL,EM,ES,LA,MA,ME,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 140 words from measles according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of measles

measles

Alternative forms

  • measle, the measles

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmizəlz/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmiːzəlz/

Etymology 1

Either from Middle Dutch masels (“blood blisters, measels”) or Middle Low German maselen (“red blemishes, measels”), both from Old High German masala (“blood blister, phlegmon”). Doublet of measlings. Cognate with mazer & mase and Middle Low German masele & māsel. Influenced in pronunciation and some senses by mesel (“leprous, leper”).

Noun

measles pl (normally plural, singular measle)

  1. (medicine) An acute and highly contagious disease which often afflicts children caused by the virus Measles morbillivirus and causing red rashes, fever, runny nose, coughing, and red eyes.
  2. (medicine, obsolete) Any disease causing red rashes.
  3. (obsolete) Used as an intensifier.
  4. (veterinary medicine) Synonym of cysticercosis: A disease of livestock or meat caused by the presence of tapeworm larvae.
  5. (botany, obsolete) Any disease causing a tree's bark to become rough and irregular.
  6. (medicine) plural of measle: a red spot forming part of a rash, (now) particularly those caused by M. morbillivirus.
    • 1599, "A.M." translating Osswald Gäbelkhover as The Boock of Physicke, p. 277:
      Others take a fether, and dippe it in the saide water, and therwith they annoynte all the Measells of the Face when they are come forth.
  7. (figuratively) plural of measle: any similar-looking red spot, particularly (printing) foxing.
  8. (veterinary medicine) plural of measle: the individual cysts of cysticercosis.
  9. (botany, obsolete) plural of measle: the individual blisters in the surface of a diseased tree's bark.
  10. (US, espionage jargon) A discreet assassination made to look like death from any natural cause.
Usage notes

Typically, most senses of measels use the plural form but take singular agreement with verbs and other words, as if acting as an ellipsis for expressions such as a case of the measels. Typically but not always used with the definite article the.

Synonyms
  • (disease caused by M. morbillivirus): morbilli, rubeola, measlings
  • (intensifier): See Thesaurus:the dickens
Hyponyms
  • (disease caused by M. morbillivirus): red measles, 7-day measles, 10-day measles, hard measles
  • (any disease causing red rashes): German measels
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Verb

measles

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of measle

Etymology 2

From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”).

Noun

measles

  1. (obsolete) plural of measle
  2. (obsolete) Alternative form of mesels: Leprosy.

References

  • “measles, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
  • “measle, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
  • “† mesel, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Anagrams

  • Maleses, Saleems, almesse

Source: wiktionary.org