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

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4-letter words (3 found)

LIPE,PILE,PLIE,

3-letter words (6 found)

LEI,LEP,LIE,LIP,PEL,PIE,

2-letter words (4 found)

EL,LI,PE,PI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 14 words from pile according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of pile

pile iple plie lpie ilpe lipe piel ipel peil epil iepl eipl plei lpei peli epli lepi elpi ilep liep ielp eilp leip elip

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Definitions and meaning of pile

pile

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paɪl/
  • Rhymes: -aɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English pyle, from Old French pile, from Latin pīla (“pillar, pier”).

Noun

pile (plural piles)

  1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
  2. (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
  3. A mass formed in layers.
  4. A funeral pile; a pyre.
  5. (slang) A large amount of money.
    Synonyms: bundle, (both informal) mint, (colloquial) small fortune
  6. A large building, or mass of buildings.
  7. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
  8. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
  9. (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.
    Hyponyms: friction pile, bearing pile, end bearing pile
    Coordinate terms: pile driver, pile foundation
  10. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
  11. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
  12. A list or league
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:lot
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Hawaiian: paila
Translations

Verb

pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)

  1. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
  2. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
  3. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
  4. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
  5. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
  6. (intransitive) To form a pile or heap.
    Synonyms: accumulate, pile up
Synonyms
  • (lay or throw into a pile): heap, pile up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
Derived terms
Translations

Related terms

Etymology 2

From Old English pīl, from Latin pīlum (“heavy javelin”). Cognate with Dutch pijl, German Pfeil. Doublet of pilum.

Noun

pile (plural piles)

  1. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
  2. The head of an arrow or spear.
  3. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
  4. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)

  1. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
Translations

Etymology 3

Apparently from Late Latin pilus.

Noun

pile (plural piles)

  1. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English pile, partly from Anglo-Norman pil (a variant of peil, poil (“hair”)) and partly from its source, Latin pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pilus.

Noun

pile (countable and uncountable, plural piles)

  1. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
  2. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
Derived terms
  • deep pile carpet
  • knotted pile
  • velvet pile
Translations

Verb

pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)

  1. (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.

Anagrams

  • Lipe, Peil, Piel, plie, plié

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /piːlə/, [ˈpʰiːlə]

Noun

pile c

  1. indefinite plural of pil

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Latin pīla (through Italian pila for the “battery” sense). The “tail of a coin” sense is probably derived from previous senses, but it's not known for sure.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pil/

Noun

pile f (plural piles)

  1. heap, stack
    pile de cartons ― stack of cardboard boxes
  2. pillar
  3. battery
    pile électrique ― electric battery
  4. tails
    pile ou face ― heads or tails
  5. (heraldry) pile

Derived terms

  • pile ou face

Descendants

  • → English: pile
  • → Haitian Creole: anpil
  • → Khmer: ពិល (pɨl)
  • → Malagasy: pila
  • → Rade: pil
  • → Turkish: pil (“battery”)
  • → Vietnamese: pin

Adverb

pile

  1. (colloquial) just, exactly
  2. (colloquial) dead (of stopping etc.); on the dot, sharp (of time), smack

Derived terms

  • pile-poil

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • plie, plié

Friulian

Etymology 1

From Latin pīla (“mortar”).

Noun

pile f (plural pilis)

  1. basin
  2. mortar (vessel used to grind things)
Synonyms
  • (basin): vâs
  • (mortar): mortâr

Etymology 2

From Latin pīla (“pillar”).

Noun

pile f (plural pilis)

  1. pile (architecture)

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpi.le/
  • Rhymes: -ile
  • Hyphenation: pì‧le

Etymology 1

Pseudo-anglicism, from English pile (textile).

Noun

pile m (invariable)

  1. polar fleece, fleece

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pile f

  1. plural of pila

Anagrams

  • peli, plié

Ladino

Alternative forms

  • pila

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpi.læ], [ˈpi.lɛ], [ˈpi.le]

Noun

pile f (Latin spelling, plural piles)

  1. Aki Yerushalayim and French orthography spelling of pila used in Kosovo, North Macedonia, Old Yishuv of Jerusalem, West Bulgaria and Ruse.

Latin

Noun

pile

  1. vocative singular of pilus

Latvian

Noun

pile f (5th declension)

  1. drip
  2. dribble (a small amount of a liquid)
  3. drop

Declension

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʲilɛ/, [ˈpʲilə]

Noun

pile

  1. inflection of piła:
    1. dative/locative singular
    2. nominative/accusative dual

Middle English

Noun

pile

  1. Alternative form of pilwe

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpi.lɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ilɛ
  • Syllabification: pi‧le
  • Homophone: pilę

Noun

pile f

  1. dative/locative singular of piła

Portuguese

Verb

pile

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pilę (“chick”); but also a *pisklę is reconstructed related to *piskati (“to utter shrilly”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pîle/
  • Hyphenation: pi‧le

Noun

pȉle n (Cyrillic spelling пи̏ле)

  1. chick
Declension

See also

  • pilad
  • kokoš
  • pijevac / pevac
  • pileći gulaš

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pile (Cyrillic spelling пиле)

  1. third-person plural present of piliti

Spanish

Verb

pile

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

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English pyle, from Old French pile, from Latin pīla.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pile

  1. pile

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 88

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