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Is mile a Scrabble word?

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

M3I1L1E1

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

M3I1L1E1

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4-letter words (2 found)

LIME,MILE,

3-letter words (5 found)

ELM,LEI,LIE,MEL,MIL,

2-letter words (5 found)

EL,EM,LI,ME,MI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 13 words from mile according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of mile

mile

English

Etymology

From Middle English myle, mile, from Old English mīl, from Proto-West Germanic *mīliju, a borrowing of Latin mīlia, mīllia, plural of mīle, mīlle (“mile”) (literally ‘thousand’ but used as a short form of mīlle passūs (“a thousand paces”)).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /maɪ̯l/, [maɪ̯ɫ]
  • Rhymes: -aɪl

Noun

mile (plural miles or (UK colloquial) mile)

  1. The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
  2. Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
  3. Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
  4. The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
  5. Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.
  6. (travel) An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
  7. (informal) Any similarly large distance.
  8. (athletics) A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
  9. (colloquial) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

  • Elim, Elmi, Emil, Imel, Lemi, Liem, Meli, elim, lime

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech mile, míle. By surface analysis, milý +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɪlɛ]

Adverb

mile (comparative mileji, superlative nejmileji)

  1. kindly, warmly

Further reading

  • “mile”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “mile”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “mile”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miːlə/, [ˈmiːlə]
  • Rhymes: -ajl

Etymology 1

From Old Norse melr. Related to male.

Noun

mile c (singular definite milen, plural indefinite miler)

  1. dune
Inflection

Etymology 2

Via Low German mile, from Latin mīlliārium.

Noun

mile c (singular definite milen, plural indefinite miler)

  1. charcoal stack
  2. atomic pile
Inflection

Etymology 3

From English mile. Doublet of mil.

Noun

mile (singular definite -, plural indefinite miles)

  1. mile

References

  • “mile” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From English mile.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mil/, /majl/

Noun

mile m (plural miles)

  1. mile

Related terms

  • mille

Further reading

  • “mile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • lime, limé
  • miel

Hawaiian

Noun

mile

  1. mile (unit of measure)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English mīl (“millet”) and Latin milium (“millet”).

Alternative forms

  • myle, milde, mylde, mylie, mylle

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miːl/, /mil/

Noun

mile

  2. millet (grass used as grain)
  3. The seed of millet.
Descendants
  • English: mile (obsolete)
References
  • “mī̆le, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-08.

Etymology 2

Noun

mile

  2. alternative form of myle (“mile”)

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmiː.le/

Noun

mīle

  1. inflection of mīl:
    1. nominative plural
    2. accusative singular/plural
    3. genitive/dative singular

Old French

Alternative forms

  • mil

Etymology

From Latin mīlle (plural mīlia).

Numeral

mile

  1. one thousand

Descendants

  • Middle French: mille, mil, mile
    • French: mille (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: mille (Jersey)

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmi.lɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ilɛ
  • Syllabification: mi‧le
  • Homophones: Mile, milę, Milę

Etymology 1

From miły +‎ -e.

Adverb

mile (comparative milej, superlative najmilej)

  1. kindly, warmly
Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

mile f

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mila

Further reading

  • mile in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • mile in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmile]

Noun

mile f pl

  1. plural of milă

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

mile

  1. inflection of mio:
    1. masculine accusative plural
    2. feminine genitive singular
    3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English mille, from Old English mylen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miːl/

Noun

mile

  1. mill

Derived terms

  • mileare
  • weend-mile

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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