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

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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 pele according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of pele

pele

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛlɛ]

Noun

pele

  1. vocative singular of pel

Galician

Verb

pele

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

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese pele. Cognate with Kabuverdianu peli.

Noun

pele

  1. skin

Hawaiian

Noun

pele

  1. volcano

Hungarian

Etymology

A loanword from Proto-Balto-Slavic *peljā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“gray”). Compare Latvian pele, Lithuanian pelė, Old Prussian pelē.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛlɛ]
  • Hyphenation: pe‧le
  • Rhymes: -lɛ

Noun

pele (plural pelék)

  1. dormouse
  2. (vulgar, slang) erect penis

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) “805”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 805

Further reading

  • pele in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *peliā̃ (Lithuanian pelė, Old Prussian pelē), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“grey”).

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Noun

pele f (5th declension)

  1. mouse (esp. Mus musculus, domestic mouse)
    mājas pele ― house (= domestic) mouse
    peles ala ― mouse hole (lit. cave)
    peļu slazds, lamatas ― mousetrap
    peļu inde ― mouse poison
    peles pīkst ― mice squeak, beep
  2. (computing, also datorpele) computer mouse (movable input device used to move a pointer on a graphic display)
    datorpele ― computer mouse


Declension

Derived terms

  • datorpele
  • pundurpele

Related terms

  • pelēks

See also

  • žurka f

Lithuanian

Noun

pelè

  1. instrumental singular of pelė̃ (“mouse”)

Noun

pẽle

  1. vocative singular of pelė̃ (“mouse”)

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • peele, pile, pale

Etymology

From Old French pele, pale, from Latin pāla.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛːl(ə)/, /ˈpɛl(ə)/

Noun

pele (plural peles)

  1. (Late Middle English) shovel, peel

Descendants

  • English: peel

References

  • “pē̆l(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pe‧le

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese pele, from Latin pellem, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”).

Noun

pele f (plural peles)

  1. skin
  2. fur
Related terms
  • peleiro
  • pelanca
Descendants
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: pele
  • Kabuverdianu: peli

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pele

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

Spanish

Verb

pele

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

Tocharian B

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pele m

  1. law, rule
  2. prison

Derived terms

  • empele (“terrible, awful”)

Further reading

  • Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “pele”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN

Tokelauan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpe.le]
  • Hyphenation: pe‧le

Noun

pele

  1. darling, sweetheart

Verb

pele

  1. (stative) to be dear

Derived terms

References

  • R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 265

Zazaki

Pronunciation

Noun

pele

  1. page
    Synonym: per

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