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Is role a Scrabble word?

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

R1O1L1E1

Is role a Scrabble UK word?

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

R1O1L1E1

Is role a Words With Friends word?

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

R1O1L2E1

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4-letter words (4 found)

EORL,LORE,ORLE,ROLE,

3-letter words (5 found)

LOR,OLE,ORE,REO,ROE,

2-letter words (6 found)

EL,ER,LO,OE,OR,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 16 words from role according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of role

role orle rloe lroe olre lore roel orel reol erol oerl eorl rleo lreo relo erlo lero elro oler loer oelr eolr leor elor

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

Definitions and meaning of role

role

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rōl
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹəʊl/, [ɹʷɒʊɫ]
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɹol/, /ɹoʊl/, [ɹʷoʊɫ]
  • (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA(key): /ɹɐʉl/, [ɹʷɒʊɫ]
  • Rhymes: -əʊl
  • Homophone: roll

Etymology 1

From French rôle, from Middle French rolle, from Old French role, from Medieval Latin rotulus. Doublet of roll and rotulus.

Alternative forms

  • rôle

Noun

role (plural roles)

  2. A character or part played by a performer or actor.
  4. The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
  6. The function or position of something.
  8. Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and attitudes
  9. (grammar) The function of a word in a phrase.
  10. (object-oriented programming) In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.
Hyponyms
  • subrole
Derived terms
Collocations
Descendants
  • → Spanish: rol
Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

role (plural roles)

  1. (historical) An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment.

References

  • role on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Orel, Orle, Orël, eorl, lore, orle, relo

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈrolɛ]
  • Rhymes: -olɛ
  • Hyphenation: ro‧le

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Rolle, from Old French rolle, role (“parchment scroll, inventory”), from Latin rotula, rotulus (“little wheel”), which is a diminutive of rota (“wheel”).

Noun

role f

  1. role, part (of an actor) [19th c.]
    Synonyms: úloha, part
  2. lines (spoken text of an actor playing a part)
    Synonym: part
  3. role (e.g. of a person in a society)
    Synonym: úloha
  4. (linguistics) role (function of a constituent in a clause)
  5. scroll [19th c.]
    Synonym: svitek
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Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Czech rolí, from Proto-Slavic *orlьja, from *orati.

Noun

role f

  1. (obsolete, literary) field (area to grow crops) [14th c.]
    Synonym: pole
  2. old unit of field measurement
  3. (obsolete, literary) area, domain (of activity)
    Synonyms: obor, okruh
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Further reading

  • role in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • role in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • role in Internetová jazyková příručka

References

Anagrams

  • orel, orle

Galician

Verb

role

  1. inflection of rolar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Old French

Noun

role oblique singular, m (oblique plural roles, nominative singular roles, nominative plural role)

  1. roll; scroll (rolled up document)

Descendants

  • → English: roll
  • French: rôle
    • → English: role

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (role, supplement)

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɔ.lɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔlɛ
  • Syllabification: ro‧le

Noun

role

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of rola

Further reading

  • role in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Verb

role

  1. inflection of rolar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

role

  1. inflection of rolar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org