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Is revel a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word revel is a Scrabble US word. The word revel is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

R1E1V4E1L1

Is revel a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word revel is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

R1E1V4E1L1

Is revel a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word revel is a Words With Friends word. The word revel is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (3 found)

ELVER,LEVER,REVEL,

4-letter words (8 found)

EREV,EVER,LEER,LERE,LEVE,REEL,VEER,VELE,

3-letter words (8 found)

EEL,ERE,EVE,LEE,LEV,REE,REV,VEE,

2-letter words (4 found)

EE,EL,ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 24 words from revel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of revel

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Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word revel. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in revel.

Definitions and meaning of revel

revel

Etymology 1

From Middle English revelen, from Old French revel, from reveler (“to be disorderly, to make merry”), from Latin rebello (“to rebel”). Doublet of rebel.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) enPR: rĕvʹ-əl, IPA(key): /ˈɹɛv.əl/
  • Rhymes: -ɛvəl

Noun

revel (plural revels)

  1. An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.
  2. A kind of dance.
  3. A wake for the dead.
Derived terms
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Verb

revel (third-person singular simple present revels, present participle revelling or reveling, simple past and past participle revelled or reveled)

  1. To make merry; to have a happy, lively time.
    • 1610, Alexander Cooke, Pope Joane, in William Oldys, editor, The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library: Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes: With a Table of the Contents, and an Alphabetical Index, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1744, OCLC 5325177; republished as John Maltham, editor, The Harleian Miscellany; or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811, OCLC 30776079, page 95:
      If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.
  2. To take delight (in something).
Synonyms
  • (make merry): carouse, celebrate
Derived terms
  • reveller/reveler
Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin revellere; re- + vellere (“to pluck, pull”).

Verb

revel (third-person singular simple present revels, present participle revelling, simple past and past participle revelled)

  1. (obsolete) To draw back; to retract.

Noun

revel (plural revels)

  1. (architecture) Alternative form of reveal

Anagrams

  • Lever, elver, lever

Breton

Alternative forms

  • reizhel

Etymology

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Adjective

revel

  1. sexual

References

  • "revel" in TermOfis, Office Public de la Langue Bretonne

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French revel, from reveler.

Alternative forms

  • revell, revelle, rewle

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɛˈvɛːl/, /ˈrɛvɛl/

Noun

revel (plural reveles)

  1. Joyfulness, entertainment, celebration, revelling.
  2. A specific instance of revelling or joyfulness.
  3. (rare, Late Middle English) Chaos, disorder.
Related terms
  • revelen
  • revelour
  • revelynge
Descendants
  • English: revel
References
  • “revel, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-16.

Etymology 2

Verb

revel

  1. Alternative form of revelen (“to revel”)

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