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What does roil mean? Is roil a Scrabble word?

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Is roil a Scrabble word?

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

R1O1I1L1

Is roil a Scrabble UK word?

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

R1O1I1L1

Is roil a Words With Friends word?

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

R1O1I1L2

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4-letter words (2 found)

LOIR,ROIL,

3-letter words (2 found)

LOR,OIL,

2-letter words (5 found)

IO,LI,LO,OI,OR,

You can make 9 words from roil according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of roil

roil

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Possibly from French or Middle French rouiller (“to rust, make muddy”), from Old French rouil (“mud, rust”), from Vulgar Latin *robicula, from Latin robigo (“rust, blight”)

Pronunciation

  • (UK, General American) IPA(key): /ɹɔɪl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪl
  • Homophone: royal (certain accents)

Verb

roil (third-person singular simple present roils, present participle roiling, simple past and past participle roiled)

  1. (transitive, of a fluid, especially a liquid) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
    Synonyms: agitate, inturbidate, stir, stir up
  2. (transitive, of a person or group of people) To annoy; to make angry; to throw into discord.
    Synonyms: irritate, rile, rile up, stir up; see also Thesaurus:annoy
  3. (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
  4. (obsolete, intransitive) To wander; to roam.
  5. (intransitive) To romp.

Derived terms

  • roiler
  • roily

Translations

Anagrams

  • Lori, Lior, Loir, loir

Estonian

Noun

roil

  1. adessive plural of roog

Source: wiktionary.org