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Is skill a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word skill is a Scrabble US word. The word skill is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is skill a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word skill is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

S1K5I1L1L1

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Yes. The word skill is a Words With Friends word. The word skill is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (2 found)

KILLS,SKILL,

4-letter words (6 found)

ILKS,ILLS,KILL,LISK,SILK,SILL,

3-letter words (6 found)

ILK,ILL,KIS,LIS,SIK,SKI,

2-letter words (4 found)

IS,KI,LI,SI,

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

All 5 letters words made out of skill

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Definitions and meaning of skill

skill

Pronunciation

  • enPR: skĭl, IPA(key): /skɪl/
    • (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): [skɪɫ]
    • (l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): [skɪo̯], [skɪʊ̯]
  • Rhymes: -ɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English skill, skille (also schil, schile), from Old English scille and Old Norse skil (“a distinction, discernment, knowledge”), from Proto-Germanic *skilją (“separation, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Danish skel (“a separation, boundary, divide”), Swedish skäl (“reason”), Dutch verschil (“difference”) and schillen (“to separate the outer layer (schil) from the product”, verb).

Alternative forms

  • skil (obsolete)

Noun

skill (countable and uncountable, plural skills)

  1. Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.
    Synonyms: ability, talent; see also Thesaurus:skill
  2. (obsolete) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
  3. (obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.
  4. (obsolete) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
Derived terms
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Adjective

skill (comparative skiller, superlative skillest)

  1. (UK, slang) Great, excellent. [1980s–1990s]
    • 1991, Wreckers (video game review in Crash issue 88, May 1991)
      This game is skill. Remember that because it's going to sound really complicated.

Etymology 2

From Middle English skilen (also schillen), partly from Old English scilian (“to separate, part, divide off”); and partly from Old Norse skilja (“to divide, separate”); both from Proto-Germanic *skilōną, *skiljaną (“to divide, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Danish skille (“to separate, discard”), Swedish skilja (“to distinguish, differentiate, part”), Icelandic skilja (“to understand”), Low German schelen (“to make a difference; to be squint-eyed”), Dutch schelen (“to make a difference”).

Verb

skill (third-person singular simple present skills, present participle skilling, simple past and past participle skilled)

  1. (transitive) To set apart; separate.
  2. (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
  3. (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England, rare) To know; to understand.
    • 17th century, Isaac Barrow, “On Industry in Our Particular Calling as Scholars,”
      […] to skill the arts of expressing our mind and imparting our conceptions with advantage, so as to instruct or persuade others […]
  4. (intransitive) To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
  5. (intransitive) To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
  6. (intransitive, archaic) To make a difference; signify; matter.
  7. (video games) To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
Synonyms
  • (separate): split (call management systems)

References

  • Skel i “skill” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Anagrams

  • Kills, kills

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

skill

  1. imperative of skille

Source: wiktionary.org