You can make 22 words from pale according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 4 letters words made out of pale
pale aple plae lpae alpe lape pael apel peal epal aepl eapl plea lpea pela epla lepa elpa alep laep aelp ealp leap elap
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Definitions and meaning of pale
pale
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: pāl, IPA(key): /peɪl/, [pʰeɪ̯ɫ], [pʰeəɫ]
Rhymes: -eɪl
Homophone: pail
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishpale, from Old Frenchpale, from Latinpallidus(“pale, pallid”), from palleō(“I am pale; I grow pale; I fade”), from Proto-Indo-European*pelito-, from *pelH-(“gray”). Doublet of pallid. Displaced native Old Englishblāc.
Adjective
pale (comparativepaler, superlativepalest)
Light in color.
(of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
Feeble, faint.
He is but a pale shadow of his former self.
The son's clumsy paintings are a pale imitation of his father's.
Synonyms
(human skin): See also Thesaurus:pallid
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
pale (third-person singular simple presentpales, present participlepaling, simple past and past participlepaled)
(intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
(intransitive) To become insignificant.
12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
(transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
Derived terms
pale in comparison
Translations
Noun
pale
(obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishpale, pal, borrowed from Old Frenchpal, from Latinpālus(“stake, prop”). English inherited the word pole (or, rather Old Englishpāl) from a much older Proto-Germanic borrowing of the same Latin word.
Doublet of peel and pole.
Noun
pale (pluralpales)
A wooden stake; a picket.
1707, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry, London: H. Mortlock & J. Robinson, 2nd edition, 1708, Chapter 1, pp. 11-12,[3]
[…] if you deſign it a Fence to keep in Deer, at every eight or ten Foot diſtance, ſet a Poſt with a Mortice in it to ſtand a little ſloping over the ſide of the Bank about two Foot high; and into the Mortices put a Rail […] and no Deer will go over it, nor can they creep through it, as they do often, when a Pale tumbles down.
(archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
(by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso, in The Poetical Works of Milton, volume II, Edinburgh: Sands, Murray, and Cochran, published 1755, p. 151, lines 155–160:[5]
But let my due feet never fail, / To walk the ſtudious cloyſters pale, / And love the high embowed roof, / With antic pillars maſſy proof, / And ſtoried windows richly dight, / Caſting a dim religious light.
(heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
Coordinate terms:pallet, endorse, cottise
(archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
(historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
(historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
(historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live (the Pale of Settlement).
(archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
A cheese scoop.
Derived terms
beyond the pale
Pale of Settlement
within the pale
Translations
Verb
pale (third-person singular simple presentpales, present participlepaling, simple past and past participlepaled)
To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
Church, Clarence, Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano[7] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 17; 39