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Is peel a Scrabble word?

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

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Is peel a Scrabble UK word?

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

P3E1E1L1

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

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4-letter words (3 found)

LEEP,PEEL,PELE,

3-letter words (5 found)

EEL,LEE,LEP,PEE,PEL,

2-letter words (3 found)

EE,EL,PE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 12 words from peel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of peel

peel epel peel epel eepl eepl pele eple plee lpee elpe lepe pele eple plee lpee elpe lepe eelp eelp elep leep elep leep

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

Definitions and meaning of peel

peel

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /piːl/
    • IPA(key): [pʰiːɫ], [pʰiəɫ]
  • Rhymes: -iːl
  • Homophone: peal

Etymology 1

From Middle English pelen itself from Old English pilian and Old French peler, pellier, both from Latin pilō, pilāre (“to remove hair from, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pill.

Verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

  1. (transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.
  2. (transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
  3. (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
  4. (intransitive) To remove one's clothing.
  5. (intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).
Synonyms
  • (remove outer covering): skin, strip
  • (remove clothing): disrobe, strip
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

peel (countable and uncountable, plural peels)

  1. (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
  2. (countable, rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.
  3. (countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
Synonyms
  • (skin of a fruit): rind, zest
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English peel, pele, from Anglo-Norman pel (compare modern French pieu), from Latin pālus (“stake”). Doublet of pole and pale.

Noun

peel (plural peels)

  1. (obsolete) A stake.
  2. (obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
  3. (archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
Derived terms
  • peel-house, peelhouse
  • peel-tower

Etymology 3

From Middle English pele, from Old French pele (modern French pelle), from Latin pāla, from the base of plangere (“fix, plant”). Doublet of pala.

Noun

peel (plural peels)

  1. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
  2. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
  3. (archaic, US) The blade of an oar.
Translations

Etymology 4

Unknown.

Noun

peel (plural peels)

  1. (Scotland, curling) An equal or match; a draw.
  2. (curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

Verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

  1. (curling) To play a peel shot.

Etymology 5

Named from Walter H. Peel, a noted 19th-century croquet player.

Verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

  1. (croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).

Etymology 6

Old French piller (“pillage”).

Verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To plunder; to pillage, rob.

Etymology 7

Noun

peel (plural peels)

  1. Alternative form of peal (“a small or young salmon”)

Etymology 8

Verb

peel

  1. Misspelling of peal: to sound loudly.
    • 1825 June 25, "My Village Bells", in The Circulator of Useful Knowledge, Literature, Amusement, and General Information number XXVI, available in, 1825, The Circulator of Useful Amusement, Literature, Science, and General Information, page 401,
      Oh ! still for me let merry bells peel out their holy chime;
    • 1901 January 1, "Twentieth Century's Triumphant Entry", The New York Times, page 1,
      The lights flashed, the crowds sang,... bells peeled, bombs thundered,... and the new Century made its triumphant entry.

Anagrams

  • LEEP, Leep, Lepe, Pele, leep

Wolof

Noun

peel

  1. shovel

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English pele, from Old French pele, from Latin pāla.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /piːɫ/
  • Homophones: peale, pile, pyle

Noun

peel

  1. A wooden implement like a shovel for putting loaves of bread in the oven.

References

  • Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 135

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