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Yes. The word pastel is a Scrabble US word. The word pastel is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (11 found)

PALEST,PALETS,PASTEL,PELTAS,PETALS,PLASTE,PLATES,PLEATS,SEPTAL,STAPLE,TEPALS,

5-letter words (45 found)

LAPSE,LEAPS,LEAPT,LEAST,LEATS,LEPTA,PALES,PALET,PASTE,PATES,PEALS,PEATS,PELAS,PELTA,PELTS,PETAL,PLAST,PLATE,PLATS,PLEAS,PLEAT,SALEP,SALET,SEPAL,SEPTA,SETAL,SLATE,SLEPT,SPALE,SPALT,SPATE,SPEAL,SPEAT,SPELT,SPLAT,STALE,STEAL,STELA,TAELS,TALES,TAPES,TEALS,TEPAL,TEPAS,TESLA,

4-letter words (66 found)

ALES,ALPS,ALTS,APES,APSE,APTS,ATES,EAST,EATS,ELTS,ETAS,LAPS,LASE,LAST,LATE,LATS,LEAP,LEAS,LEAT,LEPS,LEPT,LEST,LETS,PALE,PALS,PASE,PAST,PATE,PATS,PEAL,PEAS,PEAT,PELA,PELS,PELT,PEST,PETS,PLAT,PLEA,SALE,SALP,SALT,SATE,SEAL,SEAT,SEPT,SETA,SLAE,SLAP,SLAT,SPAE,SPAT,SPET,STAP,STEP,TAEL,TAES,TALE,TAPE,TAPS,TASE,TEAL,TEAS,TELA,TELS,TEPA,

3-letter words (44 found)

ALE,ALP,ALS,ALT,APE,APT,ASP,ATE,ATS,EAS,EAT,ELS,ELT,EST,ETA,LAP,LAS,LAT,LEA,LEP,LES,LET,PAL,PAS,PAT,PEA,PEL,PES,PET,PST,SAE,SAL,SAP,SAT,SEA,SEL,SET,SPA,TAE,TAP,TAS,TEA,TEL,TES,

2-letter words (14 found)

AE,AL,AS,AT,EA,EL,ES,ET,LA,PA,PE,ST,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 181 words from pastel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of pastel

pastel

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French pastel, from Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”). Doublet of pastille and pastegh.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpæstl̩/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /pæsˈtɛl/
  • Rhymes: -æstəl, -ɛl
  • Hyphenation: past‧el

Noun

pastel (countable and uncountable, plural pastels)

  1. Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender.
  2. (art) A drawing made with any of those colors.
  3. A type of dried paste used to make crayons.
  4. A crayon made from such a paste.
  5. Woad.
Alternative forms
  • (drawing; crayon): pastille (nonstandard, obsolete)
Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish pastel, ultimately the same word as Etymology 1.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pæsˈtɛl/, /pɑsˈtɛl/

Noun

pastel (countable and uncountable, plural pastels or pasteles)

  1. A traditional dish in various Latin American countries, resembling a tamale, pasty, or calzone.
  2. A Filipino stew made with vegetables, sausages, and chicken or other meat in a creamy sauce.

Anagrams

  • Patels, Staple, leptas, palest, palets, peltas, petals, plates, pleats, septal, staple, tepals

Asturian

Noun

pastel m (plural pasteles)

  1. cake (a sweet dessert)

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpastɛl]

Noun

pastel m inan

  1. pastel

Declension

Further reading

  • pastel in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • pastel in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • pastel in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Etymology

From French pastel, Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pastɛl/, [pʰaˈsd̥ɛlˀ]

Noun

pastel c (singular definite pastellen, plural indefinite pasteller)

  1. pastel

Inflection

French

Etymology

From Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pas.tɛl/

Noun

pastel m (plural pastels)

  1. (botany) woad
  2. (art) pastel

Derived terms

  • pastelliste

Related terms

  • pâte
  • pastille

Descendants

  • → English: pastel
  • → Danish: pastel
  • → Dutch: pastel
    • → Indonesian: pastel
  • → Romanian: pastel

Further reading

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

Galician

Noun

pastel f (plural pasteis)

  1. cake

Further reading

  • “pastel” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”). Doublet of pasta.

  • For the sense of a type of fried curry puff, from Portuguese pastel (“a type of pastry”), from above.
  • For the sense of pastel, from Dutch pastel (“pastel”), from French pastel (“pastel”), from Italian pastello (“pastel”), from above.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpas.tɛl]
  • Hyphenation: pas‧tèl

Noun

pastèl (first-person possessive pastelku, second-person possessive pastelmu, third-person possessive pastelnya)

  1. (cooking) a type of fried curry puff, similar to empanada.
  2. (art) pastel:
    1. type of dried paste.
    2. drawing made with these paste.
    3. any of several subdued tints of colors.

Related terms

Further reading

  • “pastel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French pastel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpas.tɛl/
  • Rhymes: -astɛl
  • Syllabification: pas‧tel

Noun

pastel m inan (related adjective pastelowy)

  1. pastel (type of dried paste used to make crayons)
  3. (chiefly in the plural) pastel (paint in the form of a soft crayon, used to draw without clear contours)
  4. pastel (painting technique that involves the use of pastel)
  6. pastel (painting painted with pastels)
  7. pastel (any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender)
  8. (cosmetics) eye shadow (cosmetic in the form of a light powder for eyelids or cheeks)
    Synonyms: cień, cień do powiek
  9. variety of mink with a light brown coat in various shades

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • pastel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pastel in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • pastel in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

From Italian pastello.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
  • Hyphenation: pas‧tel

Noun

pastel m (plural pastéis)

  1. crayon
  2. a fried pastry made of wheat flour, filled with cheese, meat or other fillings; comparable to German Teigtaschen

Hyponyms

  • pastel de nata
  • pastel de vento

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: pastel

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pastel, from Italian pastello.

Noun

pastel n (plural pasteluri)

  1. pastel

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Old French pastel. Cognate with English pastel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pasˈtel/ [pasˈt̪el]
  • Rhymes: -el
  • Syllabification: pas‧tel

Noun

pastel m (plural pasteles)

  1. pastry
  2. cake; pie
    Synonyms: torta, tarta
  3. (art) pastel

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • pastle, peltas, plaste

Source: wiktionary.org