You can make 6 words from mel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 3 letters words made out of mel
mel eml mle lme elm lem
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word mel. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in mel.
Definitions and meaning of mel
mel
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /mɛl/
Rhymes: -ɛl
Homophones: Mel, mell
Etymology 1
Shortening of melody.
Noun
mel (pluralmels)
(psychoacoustics) A unit of pitch on a scale of pitches perceived by listeners to be equally spaced from one another.
Further reading
Mel scale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Latinmel(“honey”).
Noun
mel (uncountable)
Honey, when used as an ingredient in cosmetic products.
Anagrams
EML, Elm, L.E.M., LEM, Lem, MLE, elm
Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latinmilium.
Noun
melm (definitemeli)
millet
Breton
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic*meli(“honey”) (compare Welshmêl, Old Irishmil), from Proto-Indo-European*mélid, whence also Latinmel(“honey”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /mɛl/
Noun
melm
honey
Catalan
Pronunciation
IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)[ˈmɛl]
Etymology 1
Inherited from Vulgar Latin*melemm or f, from Latinmeln.
Noun
melf (pluralmels)
honey
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
Inherited from Late Latinmēlum, variant of mālum(“apple”).
Noun
melm (pluralmels)
(Balearic, anatomy) cheekbone
Synonym:pòmul
Etymology 3
Pronoun
mel
(archaic)Contraction of me el. (in medieval Catalan, nowadays written as me'l)
Further reading
“mel” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“mel”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
“mel” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“mel” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Classical Nahuatl
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈméːɬ]
Noun
mēlinan
second-person singular possessive singular of ēlli; (it is) your liver.
Cornish
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic*mel, from Proto-Celtic*meli(“honey”) (compare Welshmêl, Old Irishmil), from Proto-Indo-European*mélid, whence also Latinmel(“honey”).
Noun
melm
honey
Mutation
Czech
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈmɛl]
Verb
mel
second-person singular imperative of mlít
Dalmatian
Etymology
From Latinmīlle.
Numeral
mel
thousand
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norsemjǫl, from Proto-Germanic*melwą, from Proto-Indo-European*melh₂-(“to grind, rub, break up”).
Pronunciation
Noun
meln (singular definitemelet, not used in plural form)
flour
Declension
Further reading
“mel” in Den Danske Ordbog
“mel” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Dhuwal
Noun
mel
eye
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguesemel, from Vulgar Latin*melemm or f, from Latinmeln.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈmɛl]
Noun
melm (pluralmeles)
honey
Derived terms
References
“mel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“mel” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“mel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“mel” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“mel” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Gothic
Romanization
mēl
Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻
Istriot
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin*melemm or f, from Latinmeln.
Noun
mel
honey
References
AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic*meli, from Proto-Indo-European*mel-it(“honey”), with the athematic suffix *-it that indicates comestible substances (compare Proto-Indo-European*sép-it(“wheat”)). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What are some descendants of *sép-it?”) Cognate with Ancient Greekμέλι(méli), Gothic𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸(miliþ), Old Armenianմեղր(mełr), Hittite [script needed] (milit), Luwian [script needed] (mallit-).
“mel” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Middle English
Alternative forms
mele, melle
mal, male, meyle(chiefly Northern)
mæl, mæle, meal(Early Middle English)
Etymology
From Old Englishmǣl, from Proto-West Germanic*māl, from Proto-Germanic*mēlą.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /mɛːl/
Noun
mel (pluralmeles)
A time, occasion or event.
The occasion when a meal is consumed; mealtime.
A meal or feast.
Descendants
English: meal
Scots: meal
Yola: meale, mele
→ Irish: béile
References
“mēl, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
mjøl(also Nynorsk)
Etymology
From Danishmel, from Old Norsemjǫl.
Noun
meln (definite singularmelet)
flour, meal
Derived terms
beinmel
fiskemel
hvetemel
melaktig
References
“mel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
mel
present of mala
Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
From Latinmel, from Vulgar Latin*melemm or f, from Latinmeln.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈmɛl/
Noun
melm
honey
[…] que ſon mais doceſ ca mel[…]
[…] which are sweeter than honey[…]
Descendants
Galician: mel
Portuguese: mel
Old Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic*mel, from Proto-Celtic*meli, from Proto-Indo-European*mélit.
Noun
melm
honey
Descendants
Middle Welsh: mel
Welsh: mêl
Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguesemel, from Vulgar Latin*melemm or f, from Latinmeln.
Compare Galicianmelm, Spanishmielf.
Pronunciation
Rhymes: (Portugal)-ɛl, (Brazil)-ɛw
Homophone: mele(Portugal)
Hyphenation: mel
Noun
melm (pluralméisormeles)
honey
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:mel.
Derived terms
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishmel.
Noun
melm (pluralmeli)
mel
Declension
Romansch
Alternative forms
mèl(Sursilvan)
meal(Sutsilvan)
mêl(Surmiran)
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin*melemm, from Latinmeln.
Noun
melm (pluralmels)
(Rumantsch Grischun) honey
(Rumantsch Grischun) jam
Synonyms
(honey):mel d'avieuls
References
AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from Frenchmer(“sea”), with the 'r' turned into 'l'.