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Is reel a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word reel is a Scrabble US word. The word reel is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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Is reel a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word reel is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

R1E1E1L1

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Yes. The word reel is a Words With Friends word. The word reel is worth 5 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (3 found)

LEER,LERE,REEL,

3-letter words (4 found)

EEL,ERE,LEE,REE,

2-letter words (4 found)

EE,EL,ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

All 4 letters words made out of reel

reel erel reel erel eerl eerl rele erle rlee lree elre lere rele erle rlee lree elre lere eelr eelr eler leer eler leer

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Definitions and meaning of reel

reel

Etymology

From Middle English reel, reele, from Old English rēol, hrēol, from Proto-West Germanic *hrehul, from Proto-Germanic *hrehulaz, *hrahilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“to weave, beat”). Cognate with Icelandic ræl, hræll.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹiːl/
  • Homophone: real (some accents)
  • Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

reel (plural reels)

  1. A shaky or unsteady gait.
  2. (dance) A lively dance originating in Scotland.
  3. (music) The music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
  4. A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
  5. (agriculture) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
  6. (film) A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
    Synonym: showreel

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Verb

reel (third-person singular simple present reels, present participle reeling, simple past and past participle reeled)

  1. To wind on a reel.
  2. To spin or revolve repeatedly.
  3. To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
  4. To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
  5. (with back) To back off, step away, or sway backwards unsteadily and suddenly.
  6. To make or cause to reel.
  7. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
    • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi:
      The high school had a send-off in my honour. It was an uncommon thing for a young man of Rajkot to go to England. I had written out a few words of thanks. But I could scarcely stammer them out. I remember how my head reeled and how my whole frame shook as I stood up to read them.
  8. (figurative, especially as "be reeling") To be in shock.
  9. To produce a mechanical insect-like song, as in grass warblers.
  10. (obsolete) To roll.
  11. (figurative) To bring in or along.

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Anagrams

  • Erle, LREE, leer

Atong (India)

Etymology

Borrowed from English rail, from Middle English rail, rayl, partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /reːl/

Noun

reel (Bengali script রেঽল)

  1. rains
  2. train
  3. stud (of a fence)

References

  • van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French réel (“real”), from Medieval Latin reālis (“actual”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɛɛl/, [ʁɛˈɛlˀ], [ʁeˈɛlˀ]

Adjective

reel

  1. real, proper
  2. reliable, trustworthy, honest (about a person)
  3. (mathematics) real (being a real number)
Inflection

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English reel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /riːl/, [ʁiːˀl], [ʁiːl], [ɹiːl]

Noun

reel c (singular definite reelen, plural indefinite reeler)

  1. (dance) reel
Inflection

Romanian

Adjective

reel m or n (feminine singular reelă, masculine plural reeli, feminine and neuter plural reele)

  1. Obsolete form of real.

Declension

References

  • reel in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Turkish

Etymology

From French réel, from Latin reālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾeæ̯l/

Adjective

reel

  1. real
    Synonym: gerçek

Related terms

  • realite

Source: wiktionary.org