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Is mell a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word mell is a Scrabble US word. The word mell is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is mell a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word mell is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

M3E1L1L1

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Yes. The word mell is a Words With Friends word. The word mell is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

MELL,

3-letter words (3 found)

ELL,ELM,MEL,

2-letter words (3 found)

EL,EM,ME,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 8 words from mell according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of mell

mell emll mlel lmel elml leml mell emll mlel lmel elml leml mlle lmle mlle lmle llme llme ellm lelm ellm lelm llem llem

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word mell. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in mell.

Definitions and meaning of mell

mell

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛl/
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

From Middle English melen, mælen, from Old English mǣlan (“to speak, talk”), from mǣl (“speech, talk, conversation; dispute, contest, battle”) and māl (“suit, case, action, terms, agreement, covenanted pay”), both from Proto-Germanic *mahlą (“meeting, congress, speech”), alteration of *maþlą (“meeting, congress, speech”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to meet, encounter”). Cognate with Scots mele (“to speak, converse, tell”), Danish mæle (“to speak, utter”), Icelandic mæla (“to speak, say”), Old High German mahalōn (“to charge, accuse, proscecute”), German vermählen (“to wed, marry”). More at blackmail.

Alternative forms

  • mele

Verb

mell (third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled)

  1. (British, dialectal, transitive) To say (something); to speak, to tell.

Noun

mell

  1. (UK dialectal) Discourse; conversation.

Etymology 2

From Middle English mellen, medlen, from Old French meller, mesler (“to mix, mingle”). Doublet of meddle.

Verb

mell (third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.

Etymology 3

From Latin mel.

Noun

mell (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Honey.

Etymology 4

Noun

mell (uncountable)

  1. The last grain cut at harvest; kern

See also

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *melsā (“knuckle”); possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel (“limb”).

Noun

mell

  1. joint

References

  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  • Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Hungarian

Alternative forms

  • melly (dialectal or archaic)

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *mälke. Cognates include Southern Mansi [script needed] (møul), Eastern Mansi мавлын (mawlyn) and Northern Mansi ма̄гыл (māgyl, “breast”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛlː]
  • Rhymes: -ɛlː

Noun

mell (plural mellek)

  1. (anatomy) breast
    Synonyms: (formal or technical) emlő, (literary, also figurative) kebel, (dated, dialectal, or vulgar) csecs, (vulgar) csöcs, (colloquial or slang) cici
  2. (anatomy, in certain compounds and phrases) chest
    Synonym: mellkas
  3. (anatomy, attributive usage) thoracic
    mellüreg ― thoracic cavity
  4. (swimming) Ellipsis of mellúszás (“breaststroke”)..

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • mell in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Maltese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛll/

Etymology 1

From Arabic مَلَّ (malla).

Verb

mell (imperfect jmell, verbal noun mella)

  1. to abhor, to dislike
Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Arabic مَلّ (mall).

Noun

mell m

  1. blight

Tarifit

Etymology

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic مل (mall).

Pronunciation

Verb

mell (Tifinagh spelling ⵎⴻⵍⵍ)

  1. (transitive) to detest, to be repulsed, to dislike
  2. (transitive) to be fed up

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

  • Verbal noun: amelli (“weariness”)

Yola

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛɫ/

Etymology 1

From Middle English mellen.

Verb

mell

  1. to meddle

Etymology 2

Noun

mell

  1. Alternative form of mele

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56

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