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Is steel a Scrabble word?

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

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5-letter words (6 found)

LEETS,SLEET,STEEL,STELE,TEELS,TELES,

4-letter words (14 found)

EELS,ELSE,ELTS,LEES,LEET,LEST,LETS,SEEL,SELE,SLEE,TEEL,TEES,TELE,TELS,

3-letter words (13 found)

EEL,ELS,ELT,EST,LEE,LES,LET,SEE,SEL,SET,TEE,TEL,TES,

2-letter words (6 found)

EE,EL,ES,ET,ST,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 40 words from steel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of steel

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Definitions and meaning of steel

steel

Alternative forms

  • steele (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • enPR: stēl, IPA(key): /stiːl/, [stiːɫ]
  • Rhymes: -iːl
  • Homophones: steal, stele

Etymology 1

From Middle English stele, stel, from Old English stīele, from Proto-West Germanic *stahlī (“something made of steel”), enlargement of *stahl (“steel”), from Proto-Germanic *stahlą, from *stah- or *stag- (“to be firm, rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *stak- (“to stay, to be firm”). Compare Scots stele, Yola stehli.

Noun

steel (countable and uncountable, plural steels)

  1. (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
    • c. 1275, Laȝamon, Brut, 12916:
      Þe alle þine leomen wule to-draȝen. þeh þu weore stel al.
    • c. 1480, St. Mary Magdalen, 408 in 1896, W. M. Metcalfe, Legends Saints Sc. Dial., I 267:
      Weman...with wordis cane rycht wele our-cum mene hard as stele.
  2. (countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
    1. Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
    2. A piece used for striking sparks from flint.
    3. Armor.
    4. A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
      • 1541 in 1844, J. Stuart, Extracts of the Council Register of Aberdeen, I 176:
        The steill to scherp the schawing jrne.
    5. (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
    6. (dialectal) A flat iron.
    7. (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
    8. (printing) An engraving plate:
    9. Projectiles.
    10. (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
    11. (music, guitar) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
  3. (uncountable, medicine, obsolete) Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
  4. (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
    • 1851 Dec 28, E. Ruskin, letter in 1965, M. Lutyens, Effie in Venice, II 236:
      Falkenhayn gave...to Jane a steel glacé silk dress.
  5. (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
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Adjective

steel (not comparable)

  1. Made of steel.
    • mid-14th century, Alisaunder, 416:
      Strained in stel ger on steedes of might.
  2. Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
  3. (business) Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
  4. (medicine, obsolete) Containing steel.
  5. (printing) Engraved on steel.
    • 1880, Mark Twain, letter:
      The best picture I have had yet is the steel frontis-piece to my new book.
Translations

Verb

steel (third-person singular simple present steels, present participle steeling, simple past and past participle steeled)

  1. (transitive) To edge, cover, or point with steel.
  2. (transitive) To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
    • 1796, F. Burney, Camilla, II iv vi 370:
      Steel yourself, then, firmly to withstand attacks from the cruel and unfeeling.
    • 1882, F. W. Farrar, Early Days Christianity, II 380:
      The rich experience of a long life steeled in the victorious struggle with every unchristian element.
  3. (transitive, obsolete, of mirrors) To back with steel.
  4. (transitive, medicine, obsolete) To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.
  5. (transitive, dialectal) To press with a flat iron.
  6. (transitive, uncommon) To cause to resemble steel in appearance.
  7. (transitive) To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
  8. (transitive) To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron.
  9. (transitive) To sharpen with a honing steel.
Synonyms
  • (harden): See also Thesaurus:harden
  • (strengthen): See also Thesaurus:strengthen
Derived terms
  • unsteel
  • unsteeled
Translations

Etymology 2

From French Bastille (a French prison).

Proper noun

steel

  1. (UK, crime, slang, obsolete) Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.
Further reading
  • 1811, Lexicon Balatronicum: Steel, the house of correction.
  • 1819, J. H. Vaux, New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Mem.: Bastile, generally called for shortnes, the steel a cant name for the House of Correction, Cold-Bath-Fields, London.

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Anagrams

  • Leets, Teels, Teles, leets, sleet, stele, stelè, stélé, teles

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch stelen, from Middle Dutch stelen.

Pronunciation

Verb

steel (present steel, present participle stelende, past participle gesteel)

  1. to steal

Derived terms

  • gestole (verbal adjective; rare)

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /steːl/
  • Hyphenation: steel
  • Rhymes: -eːl

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch stēle, from Old Dutch *stelo, from Proto-West Germanic *stelō, *stalu, from Proto-Germanic *staluz, *steluz (“post, trunk, stump, stem, tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, place”). Cognate with dialectal English steal (“stem, stalk”), Scots steel, stiel (“stalk”).

Noun

steel m (plural stelen, diminutive steeltje n)

  1. stem (of a plant)
    Synonym: stengel
  2. handle (of a broom, a pan)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

steel

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

Anagrams

  • leest, sleet, slete, stele

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