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Is moil a Scrabble word?

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

M3O1I1L1

Is moil a Scrabble UK word?

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

M3O1I1L1

Is moil a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word moil is a Words With Friends word. The word moil is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

M4O1I1L2

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4-letter words (3 found)

LIMO,MILO,MOIL,

3-letter words (5 found)

MIL,MOI,MOL,OIL,OLM,

2-letter words (7 found)

IO,LI,LO,MI,MO,OI,OM,

You can make 15 words from moil according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of moil

moil omil miol imol oiml ioml moli omli mloi lmoi olmi lomi milo imlo mlio lmio ilmo limo oilm iolm olim loim ilom liom

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

Definitions and meaning of moil

moil

Alternative forms

  • moile, moyle

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔɪl/
  • Homophone: mohel
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English mollen (“to soften by wetting”), borrowed from Old French moillier with the same meaning, from Vulgar Latin *molliō, *molliare, from mollis (“soft”).

Verb

moil (third-person singular simple present moils, present participle moiling, simple past and past participle moiled)

  1. To toil, to work hard.
  2. (intransitive) To churn continually; to swirl.
  3. (UK, transitive) To defile or dirty.
Derived terms
  • toil and moil

Noun

moil (countable and uncountable, plural moils)

  1. Hard work.
  2. Confusion, turmoil.
  3. A spot; a defilement.
Synonyms
  • (hard work): labour, labor; toil; work
Translations

Etymology 2

Of unclear origin; possibly from French meule or Hebrew מוהל (mohel, “ritual circumciser”), referring to the foreskin-like shape of the unwanted rim.

Noun

moil (countable and uncountable, plural moils)

  1. (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
  2. (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
  3. (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
Synonyms
  • (excess glass): overblow (blow molding), scrap

See also

  • gather
  • mold seam
  • pontil mark

Anagrams

  • Milo, OIML, limo, milo

Bouyei

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʰmwɯjᴬ (“bear”). Cognate with Thai หมี (mǐi), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨾᩦ, Lao ໝີ (mī), Lü ᦖᦲ (ṁii), Tai Dam ꪢꪲ, Shan မီ (mǐi), Ahom 𑜉𑜣 (mī), Zhuang mui, Nong Zhuang mue. Compare Old Chinese 羋 (OC *meʔ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moːi˨˦/

Noun

moil

  1. bear (animal)

Synonyms

  • duezmoil

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

moil m

  1. genitive of mol

Source: wiktionary.org