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Is shingle a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word shingle is a Scrabble US word. The word shingle is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

S1H4I1N1G2L1E1

Is shingle a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word shingle is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

S1H4I1N1G2L1E1

Is shingle a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word shingle is a Words With Friends word. The word shingle is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (2 found)

ENGLISH,SHINGLE,

6-letter words (8 found)

ELSHIN,HELING,HINGES,INGLES,LIGNES,NEIGHS,SINGLE,SLEIGH,

5-letter words (25 found)

EHING,ELSIN,GLEIS,GLENS,HEILS,HINGE,HINGS,INGLE,LEISH,LENGS,LENIS,LIENS,LIGNE,LINES,LINGS,NEIGH,NELIS,NIGHS,SEGNI,SENGI,SHIEL,SHINE,SILEN,SINGE,SLING,

4-letter words (47 found)

EGIS,EISH,ELHI,ENGS,GELS,GENS,GHIS,GIEN,GIES,GINS,GLEI,GLEN,HEIL,HENS,HIES,HING,HINS,HISN,INGS,ISLE,LEGS,LEIS,LENG,LENS,LIEN,LIES,LIGS,LINE,LING,LINS,NEGS,NESH,NIES,NIGH,NILS,NISH,SEIL,SHEN,SHIN,SIEN,SIGH,SIGN,SILE,SINE,SING,SINH,SNIG,

3-letter words (36 found)

EHS,ELS,ENG,ENS,GEL,GEN,GHI,GIE,GIN,GIS,HEN,HES,HIE,HIN,HIS,ING,INS,ISH,LEG,LEI,LES,LIE,LIG,LIN,LIS,NEG,NIE,NIL,NIS,SEG,SEI,SEL,SEN,SHE,SIG,SIN,

2-letter words (13 found)

EH,EL,EN,ES,GI,HE,HI,IN,IS,LI,NE,SH,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 132 words from shingle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of shingle

shingle

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English shyngel, from Old English sċingul, a late variant of sċindel, from Proto-West Germanic *skindulā, borrowed from Late Latin scindula, from Latin scandula, from Proto-Indo-European *sked- (“to split, scatter”), from *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of shindle.

Alternative forms

  • shindle

Noun

shingle (plural shingles)

  1. A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
  2. A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
  3. A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).
    • 2022, Peter S. Canellos, interviewed by Ronald Collins in eGreater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan, SCOTUSblog, April 13 2022
      When [these attorneys] were born, in the early decades of the 19th century, being a lawyer meant putting out a shingle and representing your neighbors.
  4. (computational linguistics) A word-based n-gram.
Derived terms
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Verb

shingle (third-person singular simple present shingles, present participle shingling, simple past and past participle shingled)

  1. (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
  2. (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
  3. (transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
Derived terms
  • hang out one's shingle
  • shingler
  • shingly
  • solar shingle
  • w-shingling
Translations

See also

  • shake
  • tile

Etymology 2

From dialectal French chingler (“to strap, whip”), from Latin cingula (“girt, belt”), from cingere (“to girt”).

Verb

shingle (third-person singular simple present shingles, present participle shingling, simple past and past participle shingled)

  1. (transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
  2. (transitive) To beat with a shingle.

Noun

shingle (plural shingles)

  1. A punitive strap such as a belt.
  2. (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.

Etymology 3

From Middle English shingel, chingel, singel (“gravel, pebbles”), cognate with Norwegian Bokmål singel (“pebble(s)”), Norwegian Nynorsk singel (“pebble(s)”), and North Frisian singel (“gravel”), imitative of the sound of water running over such pebbles.

Noun

shingle (countable and uncountable, plural shingles)

  1. Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
Derived terms
  • shingly
Translations

References

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
  • Corpun.com, a specialized website on Corporal Punishments

Anagrams

  • English, Hingles, english

Source: wiktionary.org