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Yes. The word pingle is a Scrabble US word. The word pingle is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

P3I1N1G2L1E1

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Yes. The word pingle is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

P3I1N1G2L1E1

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6-letter words (1 found)

PINGLE,

5-letter words (4 found)

GENIP,INGLE,LIGNE,PLING,

4-letter words (14 found)

GIEN,GLEI,GLEN,LENG,LIEN,LINE,LING,LIPE,PEIN,PENI,PILE,PINE,PING,PLIE,

3-letter words (25 found)

ENG,GEL,GEN,GIE,GIN,GIP,ING,LEG,LEI,LEP,LIE,LIG,LIN,LIP,NEG,NEP,NIE,NIL,NIP,PEG,PEL,PEN,PIE,PIG,PIN,

2-letter words (8 found)

EL,EN,GI,IN,LI,NE,PE,PI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 53 words from pingle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of pingle

pingle

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

Etymology 1

Perhaps from pin (“to impound”).

Noun

pingle (plural pingles)

  1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A small piece of enclosed ground.

Etymology 2

Verb

pingle (third-person singular simple present pingles, present participle pingling, simple past and past participle pingled)

  1. (intransitive, UK, dialect) To eat with a feeble appetite.
  2. (intransitive, UK, dialect) To dawdle.
  3. (intransitive) To struggle; to work with great effort.
  4. (transitive) to bother or create work for.
  5. To struggle or squabble.
    • (intransitive, dialect)
  6. To spoil

Noun

pingle

  1. (obsolete) An onerous and difficult task; a hardship.

Etymology 3

Noun

pingle (plural pingles)

  1. A small pot with a lid.

Etymology 4

Onomatopoeic

Verb

pingle (third-person singular simple present pingles, present participle pingling, simple past and past participle pingled)

  1. To make a light, ringing, percussive sound.

Anagrams

  • Epling, Pingel

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɪŋɡlɛ]
  • Rhymes: -ɡlɛ, -ɪŋɡlɛ
  • Hyphenation: pin‧g‧le

Noun

pingle

  1. vocative singular of pingl

Polish

Etymology

Plural of pingiel +‎ -e, itself from ping-pong, with a semantic shift of ball->eye->that which one wears on their eyes. For the first semantic shift, compare the shift from Proto-Slavic *glazъ to Russian глаз (glaz).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpiŋ.ɡlɛ/
  • Rhymes: -iŋɡlɛ
  • Syllabification: pin‧gle

Noun

pingle nvir pl

  1. (colloquial, humorous) glasses, specs
    Synonyms: binokle, bryle, cyngle, patrzałki, szkła

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References

Further reading

  • pingle in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pingle in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Source: wiktionary.org