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Is snail a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word snail is a Scrabble US word. The word snail is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

S1N1A1I1L1

Is snail a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word snail is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

S1N1A1I1L1

Is snail a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word snail is a Words With Friends word. The word snail is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1N2A1I1L2

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5-letter words (4 found)

ANILS,NAILS,SLAIN,SNAIL,

4-letter words (13 found)

AILS,AINS,ANIL,ANIS,ISNA,LAIN,LIAS,LINS,NAIL,NILS,SAIL,SAIN,SIAL,

3-letter words (17 found)

AIL,AIN,AIS,ALS,ANI,ANS,INS,LAS,LIN,LIS,NAS,NIL,NIS,SAI,SAL,SAN,SIN,

2-letter words (10 found)

AI,AL,AN,AS,IN,IS,LA,LI,NA,SI,

You can make 44 words from snail according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of snail

snail

English

Etymology

From the Middle English snaile, snayle, from the Old English sneġel, from Proto-Germanic *snagilaz. Cognate with Low German Snagel, Snâel, Snâl (“snail”), German Schnegel (“slug”). Compare also Old Norse snigill, from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: snāl
  • IPA(key): /sneɪl/, [sn̥eɪ̯ɫ]
  • Rhymes: -eɪl

Noun

snail (plural snails)

  2. Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
  3. (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
  4. (engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
  5. (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
  6. The pod of the snail clover.
  7. (rail transport) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.

Synonyms

  • (animal): dodman, hodmandod (East Anglia, dialectal)

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See also

  • heliciculture
  • slug

Verb

snail (third-person singular simple present snails, present participle snailing, simple past and past participle snailed)

  1. To move or travel very slowly.

Anagrams

  • Nilas, Sinla, nails, lains, Lians, sinal, Nails, salin, Lains, Aslin, nilas, anils, slain

Source: wiktionary.org