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

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

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4-letter words (5 found)

LEAP,PALE,PEAL,PELA,PLEA,

3-letter words (9 found)

ALE,ALP,APE,LAP,LEA,LEP,PAL,PEA,PEL,

2-letter words (7 found)

AE,AL,EA,EL,LA,PA,PE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 22 words from pela according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of pela

pela epla plea lpea elpa lepa peal epal pael apel eapl aepl plae lpae pale aple lape alpe elap leap ealp aelp laep alep

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

Definitions and meaning of pela

pela

Etymology

From Chinese 白蠟.

Noun

pela (uncountable)

  1. Chinese wax

Anagrams

  • Alep, LEAP, Lape, Leap, Peal, e-pal, leap, pale, pale-, peal, plea

Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition per (“by means of, by way of”) + feminine singular article la (“the”).

Contraction

pela f (masculine pel, neuter pelo, masculine plural pelos, feminine plural peles)

  1. by means of the

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɛ.lə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈpɛ.la]

Etymology 1

Deverbal from pelar.

Noun

pela f (plural peles)

  1. debarking
  2. peel, rind (of a fruit or vegetable)
  3. (colloquial) peseta

Etymology 2

Verb

pela

  1. inflection of pelar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

French

Verb

pela

  1. third-person singular past historic of peler

Anagrams

  • Alep, lape, lapé, pale, pâle

Galician

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *pilla, from Latin pilula (“pellet”). In that case, cognate with Spanish pella.

Alternative forms

  • penla

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛla̝/

Noun

pela f (plural pelas)

  1. lump, dollop, mass (of butter, grease, lard)

Etymology 2

Deverbal from pelar (“to skin”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛla̝/

Noun

pela f (plural pelas)

  1. peel
  2. peeling (of skin)

Etymology 3

From Latin palella (“little shovel”), from pala (“shovel”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛla̝/

Noun

pela f (plural pelas)

  1. trowel; small shovel
  2. vanes or blades of a water wheel

Etymology 4

From Latin per + illa.

Contraction

pela f sg (plural pelas, masculine pelo, masculine plural pelos)

  2. contraction of por (“by; through”) and a (“the”) (archaic)

Etymology 5

Verb

pela

  1. inflection of pelar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

  • “pela” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “peella” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “pela” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “pela” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “pela” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpe.la/
  • Rhymes: -ela
  • Hyphenation: pé‧la

Verb

pela

  1. inflection of pelare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • Pale, alpe, pale

Northern Sotho

Noun

pela

  1. hyrax

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese pela, from Vulgar Latin *per (“by; through”) + *la (“the”).

Alternative forms

  • pêla (superseded)
  • pella (archaic)

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pe‧la

Contraction

pela f sg

  2. Contraction of por a (“by/through the (feminine singular)”): feminine singular of pelo

Etymology 2

Inflected form of pelar (“to skin”).

Pronunciation

Verb

pela

  2. inflection of pelar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Sotho

Noun

pela class 9/10 (plural dipela)

  1. hyrax

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpela/ [ˈpe.la]
  • Rhymes: -ela
  • Syllabification: pe‧la

Etymology 1

Deverbal from pelar.

Noun

pela f (plural pelas)

  1. hit, beating
    Coordinate terms: golpe, paliza
  2. (Spain, colloquial, historical) one peseta (former currency of Spain)
    Coordinate term: duro

Etymology 2

Verb

pela

  1. inflection of pelar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Swazi

Verb

-péla

  1. to spell

Inflection

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Tswana

Noun

pela (plural dipela)

  1. hyrax

Zulu

Etymology

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Verb

-péla

  1. to spell

Inflection


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