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Is staple a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word staple is a Scrabble US word. The word staple is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is staple a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word staple is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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6-letter words (11 found)

PALEST,PALETS,PASTEL,PELTAS,PETALS,PLASTE,PLATES,PLEATS,SEPTAL,STAPLE,TEPALS,

5-letter words (45 found)

LAPSE,LEAPS,LEAPT,LEAST,LEATS,LEPTA,PALES,PALET,PASTE,PATES,PEALS,PEATS,PELAS,PELTA,PELTS,PETAL,PLAST,PLATE,PLATS,PLEAS,PLEAT,SALEP,SALET,SEPAL,SEPTA,SETAL,SLATE,SLEPT,SPALE,SPALT,SPATE,SPEAL,SPEAT,SPELT,SPLAT,STALE,STEAL,STELA,TAELS,TALES,TAPES,TEALS,TEPAL,TEPAS,TESLA,

4-letter words (66 found)

ALES,ALPS,ALTS,APES,APSE,APTS,ATES,EAST,EATS,ELTS,ETAS,LAPS,LASE,LAST,LATE,LATS,LEAP,LEAS,LEAT,LEPS,LEPT,LEST,LETS,PALE,PALS,PASE,PAST,PATE,PATS,PEAL,PEAS,PEAT,PELA,PELS,PELT,PEST,PETS,PLAT,PLEA,SALE,SALP,SALT,SATE,SEAL,SEAT,SEPT,SETA,SLAE,SLAP,SLAT,SPAE,SPAT,SPET,STAP,STEP,TAEL,TAES,TALE,TAPE,TAPS,TASE,TEAL,TEAS,TELA,TELS,TEPA,

3-letter words (44 found)

ALE,ALP,ALS,ALT,APE,APT,ASP,ATE,ATS,EAS,EAT,ELS,ELT,EST,ETA,LAP,LAS,LAT,LEA,LEP,LES,LET,PAL,PAS,PAT,PEA,PEL,PES,PET,PST,SAE,SAL,SAP,SAT,SEA,SEL,SET,SPA,TAE,TAP,TAS,TEA,TEL,TES,

2-letter words (14 found)

AE,AL,AS,AT,EA,EL,ES,ET,LA,PA,PE,ST,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 181 words from staple according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of staple

staple

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /ˈsteɪ.pəl/
  • Rhymes: -eɪpəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English staple, from Anglo-Norman estaple, Old French estaple (“market, (trading) post”), from Late Latin stapula, from Frankish *stapul, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stapulaz (“post”), from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“post, stem”). Compare staff.

Noun

staple (countable and uncountable, plural staples)

  1. (now historical) A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
  2. (by extension) Place of supply; source.
  3. The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
  4. A basic or essential supply.
  5. A recurring topic or character.
  6. Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
    Tow is flax with short staple.
  7. Unmanufactured material; raw material.
Derived terms
  • staple character
Translations

Verb

staple (third-person singular simple present staples, present participle stapling, simple past and past participle stapled)

  1. (transitive) To sort according to its staple.

Adjective

staple (not comparable)

  1. Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
  2. Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
  3. Fit to be sold; marketable.
  4. Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.

Etymology 2

From Middle English stapel (“staple, pillar, post”), from Old English stapol (“post, pillar”), from Proto-West Germanic *stapul, from Proto-Germanic *stapulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“post, stem”).

See also Old English steppan (“to step”) and Old French estaple (“post”). Consider also stapes (“stirrup”), from Latin. Doublet of staple (etymology 1).

Noun

staple (plural staples)

  1. A wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
  2. A wire fastener used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
    Can you believe they use staples to hold cars together these days?
  3. A U-shaped metal fastener, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
    The rancher used staples to attach the barbed wire to the fence-posts.
  4. One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
    Fortunately, there were staples in the quay wall, and she was able to climb out of the water.
  5. (mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
  6. A small pit.
  7. A district granted to an abbey.
  8. (obsolete) A post; prop; support
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

staple (third-person singular simple present staples, present participle stapling, simple past and past participle stapled)

  1. (transitive) To secure with a staple.
Derived terms
  • stapler
Translations

See also

  • Staple Hill

Anagrams

  • Patels, leptas, palest, palets, pastel, peltas, petals, plates, pleats, septal, tepals

German

Pronunciation

Verb

staple

  1. inflection of stapeln:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative
    3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman staple (Old French estaple), from Frankish *stapul (“post, pillar; basis, foundation”). Doublet of stapel (“post, stake”).

Noun

staple (plural staples)

  1. staple (official market established by royal authority for selling export goods)
  2. staple (the town containing such market)
Alternative forms
  • stapel, stapil, stapul
Descendants
  • English: staple
  • Scots: stapill, staple, steple

References

  • “stāple, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

staple (plural staples)

  1. Alternative form of stapel

Source: wiktionary.org