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

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

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4-letter words (6 found)

EELS,ELSE,LEES,SEEL,SELE,SLEE,

3-letter words (6 found)

EEL,ELS,LEE,LES,SEE,SEL,

2-letter words (3 found)

EE,EL,ES,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

All 4 letters words made out of seel

seel esel seel esel eesl eesl sele esle slee lsee else lese sele esle slee lsee else lese eels eels eles lees eles lees

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

Definitions and meaning of seel

seel

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /siːl/
  • Rhymes: -iːl
  • Homophone: seal

Etymology 1

From Middle English sel, sele, from Old English *sǣle (“good, fortunate, happy”) (attested in Old English unsǣle (“evil, wicked”)), from Proto-Germanic *sēliz (“good, happy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *sēl- (“to calm, quiet, be favourable”). Cognate with Danish sæl (“blissful”), Dutch zalig (“blissful”), Gothic 𐍃𐌴𐌻𐍃 (sēls, “good, kind, useful”), Icelandic sæll (“blissful”), Latin sōlor (“to comfort, console”), Swedish säll (“blissful”).

Adjective

seel (comparative more seel, superlative most seel)

  1. (obsolete) Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.

Etymology 2

From Middle English sele, sel, from Old English sǣl (“time, occasion, a fit time, season, opportunity, the definite time at which an event should take place, time as in bad or good times, circumstances, condition, position, happiness, joy, good fortune, good time, prosperity”), from Proto-Germanic *sēliz (“luck, joy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *sēl- (“to calm, quiet, be favourable”). Cognate with Icelandic sæla (“bliss”), Dutch zalig (“blissful, blessed”). More at silly.

Alternative forms

  • seal

Noun

seel (plural seels)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
  2. (UK, dialectal) Opportunity; time; season.
Derived terms
  • barley-seel
  • hay-seel

Etymology 3

From Middle English silen, from Old French siller, ciller (“to sew up the eyelids of, hoodwink, wink”), from cil (“eyelid”), from Latin cilium (“eyelid, eyelash”).

Verb

seel (third-person singular simple present seels, present participle seeling, simple past and past participle seeled)

  1. (falconry) To sew together the eyes of a young hawk.
  2. (by extension) To blind.
Translations

Etymology 4

Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *sīgan (“to drop”). Compare Low German sielen (“to lead off water”), French siller (“to run ahead, to make headway”), and English sile (transitive verb).

Verb

seel (third-person singular simple present seels, present participle seeling, simple past and past participle seeled)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete, of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm.

Noun

seel (plural seels)

  1. (obsolete) The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.

References

  • “seel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • EELS, ELEs, Else, Lees, Slee, eels, else, l'ees, lees, lese, sele

Ingrian

Etymology

Superessive of se (“it”). Cognates include Finnish siellä and Estonian seal.

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈseːlːæ/, [ˈs̠eːlʲː]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈseːl/, [ˈʃe̝ːl]
  • Rhymes: -eːlː, -eːl
  • Hyphenation: seel

Adverb

seel

  1. (of location) there

References

  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[1], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 133
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 521
  • Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎[2], →ISBN, page 49

Old French

Alternative forms

  • cel, saiel, seal, sel, sele

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *segellum, from Latin sigillum.

Noun

seel oblique singular, m (oblique plural seeaus or seeax or seiaus or seiax or seels, nominative singular seeaus or seeax or seiaus or seiax or seels, nominative plural seel)

  1. seal (means of authentication for a letter, etc.)
Descendants
  • Middle French: sceau
    • French: sceau
      • → Norman: sceau
  • → Middle English: sel, sele, selle, cel, seal, seale, sealle, seil
    • English: seal
      • → Punjabi: ਸੀਲ (sīl)
      • → Sotho: sili
      • → Swahili: sili
    • Scots: seal

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin *sitellus, masculinized counterpart to Latin sitella.

Noun

seel oblique singular, m (oblique plural seeaus or seeax or seiaus or seiax or seels, nominative singular seeaus or seeax or seiaus or seiax or seels, nominative plural seel)

  1. pail, bucket
Descendants
  • French: seau

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (seel, supplement)
  • seel on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Votic

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈseːl/, [ˈseːl]
  • Rhymes: -eːl
  • Hyphenation: seel

Adverb

seel

  1. Alternative form of siäl

References

  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “seel”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

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