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Is speel a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word speel is a Scrabble US word. The word speel is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

S1P3E1E1L1

Is speel a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word speel is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

S1P3E1E1L1

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Yes. The word speel is a Words With Friends word. The word speel is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (5 found)

LEEPS,PEELS,PELES,SLEEP,SPEEL,

4-letter words (13 found)

EELS,ELSE,LEEP,LEES,LEPS,PEEL,PEES,PELE,PELS,SEEL,SEEP,SELE,SLEE,

3-letter words (10 found)

EEL,ELS,LEE,LEP,LES,PEE,PEL,PES,SEE,SEL,

2-letter words (4 found)

EE,EL,ES,PE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 33 words from speel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of speel

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Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word speel. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in speel.

Definitions and meaning of speel

speel

Alternative forms

  • speil, spele, speal, spiel, spael

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Early Scots speill (“to climb”), of obscure origin. From or akin to Early Scots spelare (“acrobat, tumbler”). Probably from Middle Dutch spelen (“to play, walk a tight rope, do gymnastic tricks, juggle, perform as an actor or clown”), see spiel. Alternately, representing a continuation of Middle English spilen, from Old English spilian (“to play”).

Verb

speel (third-person singular simple present speels, present participle speeling, simple past and past participle speeled)

  1. (dialect, Scottish and Northern English) To climb.
    • 1832 March 5, Memoirs of a Paisley Baillie, The Day: A Journal of Literature, Fine Arts, Fashions, &c., Glasgow, page 218,
      This I thocht at the time when he was speeling up the ladder before me in the Hie Kirk steeple ; but good breeding, at that particular time, keeped me from taking ony correck view of how things stood in that quarter.
    • 1860, Hugh MacDonald, Days at the Coast: A Series of Sketches Descriptive of the Firth of Clyde, Glasgow, page 255,
      There is a comfortable inn at this picturesque spot, where those who purpose speeling the lofty Ben generally prepare for their arduous undertaking.

Etymology 2

From English dialectal speel (“talk; lingo; patter”), short for bonspiel. Related to spiel.

Verb

speel (third-person singular simple present speels, present participle speeling, simple past and past participle speeled)

  1. To talk at length, to spiel.
    • 1973, Irene Baird, Waste Heritage, Macmillan of Canada, page 262,
      “I must close now or I shall go on speeling all night. […] ”

Etymology 3

Verb

speel (third-person singular simple present speels, present participle speeling, simple past and past participle speeled)

  1. (dialect, Australia) To run.

Etymology 4

Probably from Afrikaans speel. Compare Middle English spel (“a story; tale; narrative”). Doublet of spell and shpiel.

Noun

speel (plural speels)

  1. (chiefly South Africa) A story; a spiel.

Etymology 5

Possibly related to spile.

Alternative forms

  • spool (dialectal, obsolete)

Noun

speel (plural speels)

  1. (dialect) A splinter; a strip of wood or metal.

Etymology 6

Perhaps continuing Middle English spilen (“to revel, play”), from Old English spilian (“to revel, play”), from Proto-West Germanic *spilōn. Cognate with Dutch spelen (“to play”), German spielen (“to play”), Luxembourgish spillen (“to play”), Icelandic spila (“to play”), Faroese spæla (“to play”), Swedish spela (“to play”), Danish spille (“to play”), Norwegian spille (“to play”).

Noun

speel (plural speels)

  1. (dialectal, rustic, Northern England, Scotland) A game.

Verb

speel (third-person singular simple present speels, present participle speeling, simple past and past participle speeled)

  1. (dialectal, rustic, Northern England, Scotland) To lake, play, sport, take amusement.
Derived terms
  • spieler
  • ba-spiel
References
  • The Dictionary of the Scots Language
  • The English dialect dictionary

Anagrams

  • LEEPs, Leeps, Lepes, peels, sleep

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

  • speul (archaic)

Etymology

From Dutch spelen, from Middle Dutch spēlen, from Old Dutch *spilon, from Proto-West Germanic *spilōn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spɪə̯l/

Verb

speel (present speel, present participle spelende, past participle gespeel)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to play

Derived terms

  • speler

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eːl

Verb

speel

  1. inflection of spelen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams

  • sleep, slepe, spele

Source: wiktionary.org