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What does rowel mean? Is rowel a Scrabble word?

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Is rowel a Scrabble word?

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

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Is rowel a Scrabble UK word?

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

R1O1W4E1L1

Is rowel a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word rowel is a Words With Friends word. The word rowel is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

R1O1W4E1L2

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5-letter words (3 found)

LOWER,OWLER,ROWEL,

4-letter words (9 found)

EORL,LORE,LOWE,ORLE,OWER,OWRE,ROLE,WERO,WORE,

3-letter words (12 found)

LEW,LOR,LOW,OLE,ORE,OWE,OWL,REO,REW,ROE,ROW,WOE,

2-letter words (10 found)

EL,ER,EW,LO,OE,OR,OW,RE,WE,WO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 35 words from rowel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of rowel

rowel orwel rwoel wroel owrel worel roewl orewl reowl erowl oerwl eorwl rweol wreol rewol erwol werol ewrol owerl woerl oewrl eowrl weorl eworl rowle orwle rwole wrole owrle worle rolwe orlwe rlowe lrowe olrwe lorwe rwloe wrloe rlwoe lrwoe wlroe lwroe owlre wolre olwre lowre wlore lwore roelw orelw reolw erolw oerlw eorlw rolew orlew rloew lroew olrew lorew relow erlow rleow lreow elrow lerow oelrw eolrw olerw loerw elorw leorw rwelo wrelo rewlo erwlo werlo ewrlo rwleo wrleo rlweo lrweo wlreo lwreo relwo erlwo rlewo lrewo elrwo lerwo welro ewlro wlero lwero elwro lewro owelr woelr oewlr eowlr weolr ewolr owler woler olwer lower wloer lwoer oelwr eolwr olewr loewr elowr leowr welor ewlor wleor lweor elwor lewor

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

Definitions and meaning of rowel

rowel

Etymology

From Middle English rowel, rowell, rowelle, from Old French roel, roiele (compare modern French rouelle), from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotella.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹoʊəl/
  • Rhymes: -əʊəl

Noun

rowel (plural rowels)

  1. The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur.
  2. A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 1: Knight of the Red Cross, 1850, Edmund Spenser's Knight of the Red Cross; or Holiness, page 74,
      The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.
  3. A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.

Derived terms

  • rowel-head

Translations

Verb

rowel (third-person singular simple present rowels, present participle roweling or rowelling, simple past and past participle roweled or rowelled)

  1. (transitive) To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid.
  2. (transitive) To fit with spurs.
  3. (transitive) To apply the spur to.
    to rowel a horse
  4. (transitive, figurative) To incite; to goad.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Rudyard Kipling to this entry?)

Translations

Anagrams

  • Lower, Worle, lower, owler

Source: wiktionary.org