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Is pool a Scrabble word?

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

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4-letter words (3 found)

LOOP,POLO,POOL,

3-letter words (5 found)

LOO,LOP,OOP,POL,POO,

2-letter words (4 found)

LO,OO,OP,PO,

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

All 4 letters words made out of pool

pool opol pool opol oopl oopl polo oplo ploo lpoo olpo lopo polo oplo ploo lpoo olpo lopo oolp oolp olop loop olop loop

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Definitions and meaning of pool

pool

Alternative forms

  • poole (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /puːl/
  • (US, Canada) IPA(key): /pul/, [pʰuɫ], [pʰuəɫ]
  • Rhymes: -uːl
  • Homophone: Poole

Etymology 1

From Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English pōl (“pool”), from Proto-Germanic *pōlaz (“pool, pond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bōlos (“bog, marsh”). Cognate with Scots puil (“pool”), Saterland Frisian Pol (“pool”), West Frisian poel (“pool”), Dutch poel (“pool”), Low German Pohl, Pul (“pool”), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole”), Danish pøl (“puddle”), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool”), Icelandic pollur (“puddle”), Lithuanian bala (“bog, marsh, swamp, pool”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian боло́то (bolóto, “swamp, bog, marsh”).

Noun

pool (plural pools)

  1. A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
  2. Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
  3. Ellipsis of swimming pool.
  4. A supply of resources.
  5. (by extension, computing) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
  6. A small amount of liquid on a surface.
  7. A localized glow of light.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → German: Pool
  • → Japanese: プール (pūru)
  • → Swedish: pool c
Translations

Verb

pool (third-person singular simple present pools, present participle pooling, simple past and past participle pooled)

  1. (intransitive, of a liquid) To form a pool.

Etymology 2

1. From French poule (“collective stakes in a game”). The French word "poule" in this context is an abbreviation of "poulain, pouliche" (foal, filly), and referred to races with female horses under 3 years old. It then became used by punters to designate bets on that race, and started to be used from the racetrack to the stadiums.

2. The OED suggests that this may be a transferred use of poule (“hen”), which has been explained anecdotally as deriving from an old informal betting game in France - 'jeu de poule' - Game of Chicken (or Hen, literally) in which poule became synonymous with the combined money pot claimed by the winner.

Noun

pool (plural pools)

  1. (games, uncountable) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game.
  3. (sports) A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour or solids, 7 of another color or stripes, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
  4. In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
  5. (fencing) A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
    Synonym: poule
  6. (rugby union) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
    Synonym: group
  7. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
  8. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
  10. A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.
    The pool took all the wheat offered below the limit.
    He put $10,000 into the pool.
  11. A set of players in quadrille etc.
  12. (rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
  13. (law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
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Translations

Verb

pool (third-person singular simple present pools, present participle pooling, simple past and past participle pooled)

  1. (transitive) To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of.
    • 27 February 2010, Barack Obama, Presidential Weekly Address - Time for Us to Act
      Many on both sides agreed that we should give small businesses and individuals the ability to participate in a new insurance marketplace – which members of Congress would also use – that would allow them to pool their purchasing power and get a better deal from insurance companies.
  2. (intransitive) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
Translations

Anagrams

  • Loop, OOPL, Polo, loop, polo

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Latin polus, which itself is from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis”). Cognate with English pole.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pool

Noun

pool c (plural polen, diminutive pooltje n)

  1. magnetic pole (especially of the Earth and other celestial bodies)
  2. electrical pole (e.g. of a battery)
  3. (figuratively) an opposing side of a principle or a doctrine
Derived terms
  • noordpool, Noordpool
  • zuidpool, Zuidpool

Etymology 2

From English pool.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pool

Noun

pool m (plural pools, diminutive pooltje n)

  1. a gambling venture such as a football pool
  2. the stake involved in such a venture
  3. an arrangement where people pool in money to share one resource such as a carpool
  4. (sports) pool
Derived terms
  • banenpool
  • arbeidspool

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch pool, from Old French poil, from Latin pilus (“hair”). Cognate with English pile.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pool

Noun

pool c (plural polen, diminutive pooltje n)

  1. the pile (upstanding usually fine hair) on certain fabrics, velvet or carpeting

Anagrams

  • loop

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *pooli, from Proto-Uralic *pälä. Cognates include Finnish puoli (“half, side”), Northern Mansi па̄л (pāl, “half, side”), Hungarian fél (“half”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpoːl/, [ˈpoːl]
  • Hyphenation: pool
  • Rhymes: -oːl

Noun

pool (genitive poole, partitive poolt)

  1. half
  2. side
    tagumine pool ― back side
    koledam pool ― the ugly side
Declension

The nonstandard plural partitive poolesid is somewhat common in colloquial use.

Postposition

pool

  1. at, to, towards
    minu pool ― at my place
    põhja pool ― to the north, in the north
    igal pool ― everywhere

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Low German spōle, from Old Saxon spōla, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *spōlǭ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpoːlʲ/, [ˈpoːlʲ]
  • Hyphenation: pool
  • Rhymes: -oːlʲ

Noun

pool (genitive pooli, partitive pooli)

  1. bobbin, coil
Inflection
See also
  • mähis

References

  • “pool”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012

French

Pronunciation

Noun

pool m (plural pools)

  1. pool (sport)

Further reading

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

Ingrian

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈpoːl/, [ˈpoːlʲ]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈpoːlʲ/, [ˈpo̝ːlʲ]
  • Rhymes: -oːl, -oːlʲ
  • Hyphenation: pool

Noun

pool

  1. Alternative form of pooli

Declension

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 451

Karao

Noun

pool

  1. large fire (which causes damage)

Sambali

Noun

pool

  1. fire

Spanish

Noun

pool m (plural pooles)

  1. pool (sport)

Swedish

Etymology

Since 1968; from English pool, related to Swedish pöl (“small water pool, usually on the road when it's raining”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /puːl/
  • Homophone: pol
  • Rhymes: -uːl

Noun

pool c

  1. a swimming pool

Declension

Related terms

  • bubbelpool

Anagrams

  • loop
  • polo

Votic

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈpoːl/, [ˈpoːɫ]
  • Rhymes: -oːl
  • Hyphenation: pool

Noun

pool

  1. Alternative form of pooli

Numeral

pool

  1. half

Inflection

References

  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “pooli”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

Yucatec Maya

Noun

pool

  1. head

Source: wiktionary.org