1. Home
  2. Scrabble Dictionary. Word Meaning and Points

Sile in Scrabble and Meaning

Lookup Word Points and Definitions

What does sile mean? Is sile a Scrabble word?

How many points in Scrabble is sile worth? sile how many points in Words With Friends? What does sile mean? Get all these answers on this page.

Scrabble® and Words with Friends® points for sile

See how to calculate how many points for sile.

Is sile a Scrabble word?

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

S1I1L1E1

Is sile a Scrabble UK word?

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

S1I1L1E1

Is sile a Words With Friends word?

The word sile is NOT a Words With Friends word.

Our tools

Valid words made from Sile

Results

4-letter words (5 found)

ISLE,LEIS,LIES,SEIL,SILE,

3-letter words (7 found)

ELS,LEI,LES,LIE,LIS,SEI,SEL,

2-letter words (5 found)

EL,ES,IS,LI,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 18 words from sile according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sile

sile

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saɪl/
  • Rhymes: -aɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English syle, from Old English sȳl (“column, pillar, support”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūli, from Proto-Germanic *sūliz (“beam, post, column, pillar”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱsewl-, *ḱswel- (“log”), from *ḱsew-, *ḱes- (“to scratch, comb”).

Cognate with Dutch zuil (“pillar”), German Säule (“column, pillar”), Norwegian søyle (“pillar”), Icelandic súla (“column”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐍃 (sauls, “pillar”).

Alternative forms

  • syle, cyle (Scotland)

Noun

sile (plural siles)

  1. (now chiefly dialectal) A column; pillar.
  2. (now chiefly dialectal) A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.
  3. (now chiefly dialectal) The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.
  4. (now chiefly dialectal) A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.

Etymology 2

From Middle English silen, sylen, from Middle Low German silen ("to let off water, filter, strain"; > Low German silen, sielen), equivalent to sie (“to filter, strain”) +‎ -le. Cognate with German sielen (“let off water, filter”), Swedish sila (“to strain, filter, sift”), German Siel (“drain, sewer, sluice”).

Verb

sile (third-person singular simple present siles, present participle siling, simple past and past participle siled)

  1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
  2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.
  3. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To settle down; calm or compose oneself.
  4. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To go; pass.
  5. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To boil gently; simmer.
  6. (intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To pour with rain.

Noun

sile (plural siles)

  1. A sieve.
  2. A strainer or colander for liquids
  3. That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth.

Etymology 3

From Middle English *sile, from Old Norse síl (“herring”), from Proto-Germanic *sīlą, *sīlō (“herring”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Icelandic síld (“herring”), Norwegian and Danish sild (“herring”), dialectal Swedish sil (“young fish, fry”). Compare sild.

Noun

sile (plural siles)

  1. A young herring.
Derived terms
  • sillock

Anagrams

  • isle, Iles, Lise, leis, %iles, Elis, lies, slie, iles, Isle, ELIs, Leis

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *siledä.

Adjective

sile (genitive sileda, partitive siledat, comparative siledam, superlative kõige siledam)

  1. smooth

Declension

Further reading

  • “sile”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
  • “sile”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “sile”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • sile in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Finnish

Etymology

Probably from Swedish gelé.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsileˣ/, [ˈs̠ile̞(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -ile
  • Syllabification(key): si‧le
  • Hyphenation(key): si‧le

Noun

sile (dialectal)

  1. (Southwest Finnish) meat jelly

Declension

Synonyms

  • aladobi

Anagrams

  • Elsi

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sil/

Verb

sile

  1. inflection of siler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • élis, îles, isle, lies, liés, Lise, lise

Irish

Verb

sile

  1. analytic present subjunctive of sil

Noun

sile

  1. genitive singular of sil

Mutation

Latin

Verb

silē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of sileō

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɕi.lɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ilɛ
  • Syllabification: si‧le

Noun

sile f

  1. dative/locative singular of siła

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sile (Cyrillic spelling силе)

  1. inflection of sila:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

sile (Cyrillic spelling силе)

  1. third-person plural present of siliti

Tagalog

Etymology

Possibly a colloquial variant of sili due to /e/-/i/ allophony, or from Mexican Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈsile/ [ˈsiː.lɛ]
  • Rhymes: -ile
  • Syllabification: si‧le

Noun

sile (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜎᜒ)

  1. alternative form of sili

Source: wiktionary.org