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Is miles a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word miles is a Scrabble US word. The word miles is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is miles a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word miles is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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

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5-letter words (4 found)

LIMES,MILES,SLIME,SMILE,

4-letter words (13 found)

ELMS,ISLE,LEIS,LIES,LIME,MELS,MILE,MILS,MISE,SEIL,SEMI,SILE,SLIM,

3-letter words (15 found)

ELM,ELS,EMS,ISM,LEI,LES,LIE,LIS,MEL,MES,MIL,MIS,SEI,SEL,SIM,

2-letter words (8 found)

EL,EM,ES,IS,LI,ME,MI,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 41 words from miles according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of miles

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Definitions and meaning of miles

miles

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maɪlz/
  • Rhymes: -aɪlz

Noun

miles

  1. plural of mile
  2. (informal) A great distance in space or time.
    His final shot missed the bullseye by miles.
    From the top of the hill you can see for miles.
    No need to hurry. The deadline is miles away.

Adverb

miles (not comparable)

  1. much; a lot (used to emphasise a comparative)
    Her new paintings are miles better than her older ones.

Anagrams

  • Imels, Liems, Selim, limes, milse, misle, slime, smile

French

Pronunciation

Noun

miles ?

  1. plural of mile

Latin

Alternative forms

  • milex (Vulgar or Late Latin, Appendix Probi)

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly of Etruscan origin. The suffix seems similar to that of pedes, eques, veles, comes, but the origin of mīl- is opaque. A connection to mīlia (“thousands”), perhaps as "person going by the thousand(s)", is difficult to confidently motivate semantically.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmiː.les/, [ˈmiːɫ̪ɛs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmi.les/, [ˈmiːles]

Noun

mīles m or f (genitive mīlitis); third declension

  1. (military) A soldier.
    mīles gregārius ― a private (lit., a "common soldier")
  2. (Medieval Latin) A knight.
  3. A man in boardgames such as ludus latrunculi and chess.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

References

  • “miles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “miles”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • miles in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • miles in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • miles in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Anagrams

  • limes

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmiles/ [ˈmi.les]
  • Rhymes: -iles
  • Syllabification: mi‧les

Noun

miles m pl (plural only)

  1. thousands
    Synonym: millares
    hace miles de años ― thousands of years ago

Usage notes

  • Miles is only used in the indefinite sense of the word "thousands":
    miles de pesos ― thousands of pesos
  • Otherwise, the singular mil is used:
    dos mil pesos ― two thousand pesos" ($2,000)
    cien mil pesos ― a hundred thousand pesos" ($100,000)

Numeral

miles

  1. plural of mil

Source: wiktionary.org