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Is spill a Scrabble word?

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

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Is spill a Scrabble UK word?

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

S1P3I1L1L1

Is spill a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word spill is a Words With Friends word. The word spill is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (2 found)

PILLS,SPILL,

4-letter words (6 found)

ILLS,LIPS,LISP,PILL,SILL,SLIP,

3-letter words (6 found)

ILL,LIP,LIS,PIS,PSI,SIP,

2-letter words (4 found)

IS,LI,PI,SI,

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

All 5 letters words made out of spill

spill psill sipll ispll pisll ipsll splil pslil slpil lspil plsil lpsil silpl islpl slipl lsipl ilspl lispl pilsl iplsl plisl lpisl ilpsl lipsl spill psill sipll ispll pisll ipsll splil pslil slpil lspil plsil lpsil silpl islpl slipl lsipl ilspl lispl pilsl iplsl plisl lpisl ilpsl lipsl splli pslli slpli lspli plsli lpsli splli pslli slpli lspli plsli lpsli sllpi lslpi sllpi lslpi llspi llspi pllsi lplsi pllsi lplsi llpsi llpsi sillp isllp slilp lsilp ilslp lislp sillp isllp slilp lsilp ilslp lislp sllip lslip sllip lslip llsip llsip illsp lilsp illsp lilsp llisp llisp pills iplls plils lpils ilpls lipls pills iplls plils lpils ilpls lipls pllis lplis pllis lplis llpis llpis illps lilps illps lilps llips llips

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

Definitions and meaning of spill

spill

Etymology

From Middle English spillen, from Old English spillan, spildan (“to kill, destroy, waste”), from Proto-West Germanic *spilþijan, from Proto-Germanic *spilþijaną (“to spoil, kill, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to sunder, split, rend, tear”).

Cognate with Dutch spillen (“to use needlessly, waste”), French gaspiller ("to waste, squander" < Germanic), Bavarian spillen (“to split, cleave, splinter”), Danish spilde (“to spill, waste”), Swedish spilla (“to spill, waste”), Icelandic spilla (“to contaminate, spoil”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spɪl/
    • (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): [spɪɫ]
    • (l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): [spɪo̯], [spɪʊ̯]
  • Rhymes: -ɪl

Verb

spill (third-person singular simple present spills, present participle spilling, simple past and past participle spilled or spilt)

  1. (transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
  2. (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
  3. (transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
  4. To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
  5. (obsolete, intransitive) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
  6. (transitive) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
  7. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc.
  8. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
  9. (nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
  10. (transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
  11. (transitive, intransitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.
  12. (of a knot) To come undone.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

spill (plural spills)

  1. (countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
  2. A fall or stumble.
    The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.
  3. A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
  4. A slender piece of anything.
    1. A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
    2. A metallic rod or pin.
  5. (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
  6. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
  7. (obsolete) A small sum of money.
  8. (Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:spill.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • pills

Gothic

Romanization

spill

  1. Romanization of 𐍃𐍀𐌹𐌻𐌻

Indonesian

Etymology

From English spill.

Verb

spill

  1. (slang) to spill a person's secret or disgrace

Luxembourgish

Verb

spill

  1. second-person singular imperative of spillen

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English spillan.

Verb

spill

  1. Alternative form of spillen

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • spell

Etymology 1

From the verb spille.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spɪl/
  • Rhymes: -ɪl

Noun

spill n (definite singular spillet, indefinite plural spill, definite plural spilla or spillene)

  1. a game (or part of a game, e.g., a hand, a round); equipment for a game (e.g., deck of cards, set of dice, board, men, pieces, etc.)
  2. play, playing
    ballen er ute av spill - the ball is out of play
  3. gambling; card-playing
  4. musical instrument (in compounds such as trekkspill (“accordion”))
  5. stage play
  6. flickering, play, sparkling (of flames, lights, colors, eyes, a smile)
Derived terms
See also
  • spel (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

Verb

spill

  1. imperative of spille

References

  • “spill” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

spill n

  1. waste, unusable surplus material
  2. a spill (a mess of something spilled, dropped or leaked)

Declension

Verb

spill

  1. imperative of spilla

Source: wiktionary.org