Sole in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Sole

You can make 19 words from 'sole' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'sole'
• 3 letters words from 'sole'
• 2 letters words from 'sole'

4 letters words from 'sole'

LOSE 4	OLES 4
SLOE 4	SOLE 4

3 letters words from 'sole'

ELS 3	LES 3
LOS 3	OES 3
OLE 3	OSE 3
SEL 3	SOL 3

2 letters words from 'sole'

EL 2	ES 2
LO 2	OE 2
OS 2	SO 2

Definitions and meaning of sole

sole

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səʊl/
• (General American) enPR: sōl, IPA^(key): /soʊl/
• Rhymes: -əʊl
• Homophones: Seoul, soul, sowl

Etymology 1

From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sāl (“a rope, cord, line, bond, rein, door-hinge, necklace, collar”), from Proto-Germanic *sailą, *sailaz (“rope, cable”), *sailō (“noose, rein, bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *sey- (“to tie to, tie together”). Cognate with Scots sale, saile (“halter, collar”), Dutch zeel (“rope, cord, strap”), German Seil (“rope, cable, wire”), Icelandic seil (“a string, line”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dell (“sinew, vein”).

Noun

sole (plural soles)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.

Etymology 2

From Middle English sol, from Old English sol (“mire, miry place”), from Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mire, wallow, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian soal (“ditch”), Dutch sol (“water and mud filled pit”), German Suhle (“mire, wallow”), Norwegian saula, søyla (“mud puddle”). More at soil.

Alternative forms

• soal

Noun

sole (plural soles)

1. (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.

Etymology 3

From earlier sowle (“to pull by the ear”). Origin unknown. Perhaps from sow (“female pig”) +‎ -le, as in the phrase "take a sow by the wrong ear", or from Middle English sole (“rope”). See above.

Alternative forms

• soal, sowl

Verb

sole (third-person singular simple present soles, present participle soling, simple past and past participle soled)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.

Etymology 4

From Middle English sole, soule, from Old French sol, soul (“alone”), from Latin sōlus (“alone, single, solitary, lonely”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (reflexive pronoun). Perhaps related to Old Latin sollus (“whole, complete”), from Proto-Indo-European *solw-, *salw-, *slōw- (“safe, healthy”). More at save.

Adjective

sole (not comparable)

1. only
2. (law) unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
3. unique; unsurpassed;

4. with independent power; unfettered.

Synonyms

• (only): See also Thesaurus:sole
• (unmarried): lone

Derived terms

• sole right

Translations

Etymology 5

From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sole, solu. Reinforced by Anglo-Norman sole, Old French sole, from Vulgar Latin *sola (“bottom of the shoe”, also “flatfish”), from Latin solea (“sandal, bottom of the shoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *swol- (“sole”). Cognate with Dutch zool (“sole, tread”), German Sohle (“sole, insole, bottom, floor”), Danish sål (“sole”), Icelandic sóli (“sole, outsole”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰 (sulja, “sandal”). Related to Latin solum (“bottom, ground, soil”). More at soil.

Noun

sole (plural soles)

1. (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.

   Synonym: planta (medical term)

2. (clothing) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
3. (obsolete) The foot itself.

   • The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
4. Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae.
5. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
   1. The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
   2. The bottom of a furrow.
   3. The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
   4. The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
   5. (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
   6. (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.

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6. (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.

Derived terms

• insole
• midsole
• outsole

Descendants

• → Hebrew: סוֹל‎ (sol)

Translations

Verb

sole (third-person singular simple present soles, present participle soling, simple past and past participle soled)

1. (transitive) to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)

Derived terms

• resole

Translations

Anagrams

• EOLs, ESOL, Elos, LEOs, Leos, Lose, OELs, elos, leos, lose, selo, sloe

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsolɛ]

Verb

sole

1. masculine singular present transgressive of solit

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Danish

Noun

sole c

1. indefinite plural of sol

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsole/
• Hyphenation: so‧le
• Rhymes: -ole
• Audio:

Adverb

sole

1. solely

Related terms

• sola

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French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sola, from Latin solea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/

Noun

sole f (plural soles)

1. sole (fish)
2. sole, the bottom of a hoof
3. sole, a piece of timber, a joist
4. a piece of land devoted to crop rotation

Further reading

• “sole” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈso.le/, [ˈs̪oːl̺e]
• Hyphenation: só‧le

Etymology 1

From Sole, from Latin sōlem, accusative case of sōl, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.
Cognates include Greek ήλιος (ílios), Icelandic sól, Hindi सूर्य (sūrya), and Russian со́лнце (sólnce).

Noun

sole m (plural soli)

1. (colloquial, astronomy) star (for extension of Sole)

   Synonym: stella

2. (heraldry) sun (a star in heraldry)
3. (alchemy) gold

   Synonym: oro

4. sunlight
5. (poetic) daytime, day (the interval between sunrise and sunset)
6. (poetic) year
7. (poetic, in the plural) eyes

Related terms

See also

References

• sole in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti
• sole in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

Further reading

• sole on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

sole

1. feminine plural of solo

Noun

sole f

1. plural of sola

Anagrams

• leso

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Latin

Etymology 1

See sōl.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsoː.le/, [ˈs̠oːɫ̪ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.le/, [ˈsɔːlɛ]

Noun

sōle

1. ablative singular of sōl

Etymology 2

See sōlus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsoː.le/, [ˈs̠oːɫ̪ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.le/, [ˈsɔːlɛ]

Adjective

sōle

1. vocative masculine singular of sōlus

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Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin sōl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsolə/

Noun

sole m

1. Sun

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Norman

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sola, from Latin solea.

Noun

sole f (plural soles)

1. sole (fish)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Probably from the noun sol

Verb

sole (imperative sol, present tense soler, passive -, simple past sola or solet or solte, past participle sola or solet or solt, present participle solende)

1. (reflexive, sole seg) to sunbathe, sun oneself, bask (also figurative)

References

• “sole” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skuːlə/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sóli m, from Latin solum (“bottom, ground”).

Noun

sole m (definite singular solen, indefinite plural solar, definite plural solane)

1. (anatomy) a sole (bottom or plantar surface of the foot)
2. (clothing) a sole (bottom of a shoe or boot)

Derived terms

Verb

sole (present tense solar, past tense sola, past participle sola, passive infinitive solast, present participle solande, imperative sol)

1. to apply a sole to footwear

Alternative forms

• sola (a-infinitive)

Derived terms

• soling f

See also

• såle (Bokmål)

Etymology 2

From the noun sol f (“sun”).

Alternative forms

• sola (a-infinitive)

Verb

sole (present tense solar, past tense sola, past participle sola, passive infinitive solast, present participle solande, imperative sol)

1. (reflexive) to sunbathe
2. (reflexive, figuratively) to bask
3. (transitive) to expose to the sun

Derived terms

• soling f

References

• “sole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• lose, Sola, sloe

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Old English

Alternative forms

• solu

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin solea, from solum (“bottom, base”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swol-.

Noun

sole f

1. sole
2. shoe, sandal

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: sole, soole
  • English: sole
  • Scots: sole

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “sole”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “sole”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.

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Old French

Adjective

sole f

1. oblique/nominative feminine singular of sol

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.lɛ/
• Homophone: solę

Noun 1

sole

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sól

Noun 2

sole

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sola

Noun 3

sole

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sol

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Portuguese

Verb

sole

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of solar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of solar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of solar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of solar

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Serbo-Croatian

Verb

sole (Cyrillic spelling соле)

1. third-person plural present of soliti

Source: wiktionary.org

• the military profession.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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