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4-letter words (2 found)

LOME,MOLE,

3-letter words (7 found)

ELM,EMO,MEL,MOE,MOL,OLE,OLM,

2-letter words (7 found)

EL,EM,LO,ME,MO,OE,OM,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 17 words from mole according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of mole

mole omle mloe lmoe olme lome moel omel meol emol oeml eoml mleo lmeo melo emlo lemo elmo olem loem oelm eolm leom elom

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

Definitions and meaning of mole

mole

Etymology 1

From Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl (“a mole, spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-West Germanic *mail, from Proto-Germanic *mailą (“spot, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *mel-, *melw- (“dark, dirty”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey-, *my- (“to soil, sully”).

Cognate with Scots mail (“spot, stain”), Saterland Frisian Moal (“scar”), German dialectal Meil (“spot, stain, blemish”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌻 (mail, “spot, blemish”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /məʊl/, /mɔʊl/
  • (Estuary English) IPA(key): /mɒʊl/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /mol/, /moʊl/
  • Rhymes: -əʊl

Noun

mole (plural moles)

  1. A naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.
Synonyms
  • birthmark
  • nevus, naevus, nævus
Related terms
  • beauty mark
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English molle (“mole”), molde, mole, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mulaz, *mulhaz (“mole, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *molg-, *molk- (“slug, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)melw- (“to grind, crush, beat”).

Cognate with North Frisian mull (“mole”), Saterland Frisian molle (“mole”), Dutch mol (“mole”), Low German Mol, Mul (“mole”), German Molch (“salamander, newt”), Old Russian смолжь (smolžʹ, “snail”), Czech mlž (“clam”).

Derivation as an abbreviation of Middle English molewarpe, a variation of moldewarpe, moldwerp (“mole”) in Middle English is unexplained and probably unlikely due to the simultaneous occurrence of both words. See mouldwarp.

Alternative forms

  • mool, moule, mowle, mold (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /məʊl/
  • (Estuary English) IPA(key): /mɒʊl/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /mol/, /moʊl/
  • Rhymes: -əʊl

Noun

mole (plural moles)

  1. Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae; also any of southern African mammals in the family Chrysochloridae (golden moles) and any of several Australian mammals in the family Notoryctidae (marsupial moles), similar to but not closely related to Talpidae moles
  2. Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.
  3. (espionage) An internal spy, a person who involves himself or herself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.
  4. A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines
  5. A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.
Synonyms
  • molewarp
  • mouldwarp
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

From moll (from Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary), influenced by the spelling of the word mole (“an internal spy”), and due to /mɒl/ and /məʊl/ merging as [ˈmɔʊɫ] in the Australian accent.

Pronunciation

  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /məʉl/, [ˈmɔʊɫ]
  • Rhymes: -əʊl

Noun

mole (plural moles)

  1. (slang, derogatory) A moll, a bitch, a slut.
Synonyms
  • moll
Translations

Etymology 4

From French môle or Latin mōles (“mass, heap, rock”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /məʊl/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /mol/, /moʊl/
  • Rhymes: -əʊl

Noun

mole (plural moles)

  1. (nautical) A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.
  2. (rare) A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
  3. (historical) An Ancient Roman mausoleum.
Translations

Etymology 5

Calqued from German Mol; spelled as if it had come directly from molecule or Latin moles (the ultimate source of Mol and molecule in any event).

Alternative forms

  • mol (dated)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /məʊl/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /mol/, /moʊl/
  • Rhymes: -əʊl

Noun

mole (plural moles)

  1. (chemistry, physics) In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains exactly 6.02214076×1023 elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.). Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. [from 1897]
Hyponyms
  • gram molecule
  • gram atom
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 6

From French môle f, from Latin mola (“millstone”), because it is a hardened mass.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /məʊl/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /mol/, /moʊl/
  • Rhymes: -əʊl

Noun

mole (plural moles)

  1. A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.
Translations

Etymology 7

From Spanish mole, from Classical Nahuatl mōlli (“sauce; stew; something ground”).

Alternative forms

  • molé

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmoʊleɪ/, /ˈmoʊli/

Noun

mole (countable and uncountable, plural moles)

  1. One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially a sauce which contains chocolate and which is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.
Translations

References

Anagrams

  • Elmo, Lomé, Melo, melo-, moel

Central Franconian

Etymology

From Old High German mālōn, mālēn, denominative of māl (“spot, stain”), from Proto-West Germanic *mālijan, from Proto-Germanic *mēlijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“dark color”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔːlə/

Verb

mole (third-person singular present molt, past participle jemolt)

  1. (most dialects) to paint, draw, depict

See also

  • mahle

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish moler (“to grind”).

Verb

molé

  1. to mill; to grind

Danish

Etymology

From French môle.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moːlə/, [ˈmoːlə]

Noun

mole c (singular definite molen, plural indefinite moler)

  1. mole, breakwater
  2. pier, jetty

Inflection

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adverb

mole

  1. softly

Antonyms

  • malmole

Related terms

  • mola (“soft”)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from German Mol.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔl/

Noun

mole f (plural moles)

  1. (chemistry, physics) mole

Further reading

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

Galician

Verb

mole

  1. third-person singular present indicative of mulir

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.le/
  • Rhymes: -ɔle
  • Hyphenation: mò‧le

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Mol.

Noun

mole f (plural moli)

  1. (chemistry, physics) mole
    Synonym: grammo-molecola
Derived terms
  • millimole
  • molare

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

mole

  1. plural of mola

Anagrams

  • elmo, melo, mélo

Latin

Etymology 1

Verb

mole

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of molō

Etymology 2

Noun

mōle f

  1. ablative singular of mōlēs

Lower Sorbian

Noun

mole

  1. Superseded spelling of móle.

Middle English

Noun

mole

  1. Alternative form of molle (“mole”)

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.lɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔlɛ
  • Syllabification: mo‧le

Noun

mole m animal

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mól

Noun

mole m inan

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mol

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: mo‧le

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese mole, from Latin mollis, earlier *molduis, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥dus (“soft, weak”).

Adjective

mole m or f (plural moles, comparable, comparative mais mole, superlative o mais mole or molíssimo, diminutive molinho, augmentative molão)

  1. soft
  2. (informal) easy
Derived terms
  • molemente
Related terms
  • moleza
  • molhar

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin mōlēs. Doublet of mó, an inheritance.

Noun

mole f (plural moles)

  1. mass

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

mole f (plural moles)

  1. Portugal form of mol (unit of amount)

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

mole m (plural moles)

  1. Alternative form of molhe (breakwater)

Further reading

  • “mole” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

mole (Cyrillic spelling моле)

  1. third-person plural present of moliti

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmole/ [ˈmo.le]
  • Rhymes: -ole
  • Syllabification: mo‧le

Etymology 1

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin mollis. Doublet of muelle.

Adjective

mole m or f (masculine and feminine plural moles)

  1. soft, mild
    Synonym: muelle

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin mōlēs.

Noun

mole f (plural moles)

  1. hunk, chunk, slab (thing of large size or quantity)
  2. massiveness

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl mōlli (“sauce, something ground”).

Noun

mole m (plural moles)

  1. (Mexico) mole, a type of stew
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Verb

mole

  1. inflection of molar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “mole”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Zayse-Zergulla

Noun

mole

  1. fish

References

  • Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 397, →ISBN: “Zayse mo'le”
  • Linda Jordan, A study of Shara and related Ometo speech varieties (Zergulla mòlɛ́)

Source: wiktionary.org