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Is swale a Scrabble word?

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

S1W4A1L1E1

Is swale a Scrabble UK word?

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

S1W4A1L1E1

Is swale a Words With Friends word?

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

S1W4A1L2E1

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5-letter words (5 found)

ALEWS,SWALE,SWEAL,WALES,WEALS,

4-letter words (17 found)

ALES,ALEW,AWES,AWLS,LASE,LAWS,LEAS,SALE,SEAL,SLAE,SLAW,SLEW,WAES,WALE,WASE,WEAL,WELS,

3-letter words (19 found)

ALE,ALS,AWE,AWL,EAS,ELS,LAS,LAW,LEA,LES,LEW,SAE,SAL,SAW,SEA,SEL,SEW,WAE,WAS,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AL,AS,AW,EA,EL,ES,EW,LA,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 52 words from swale according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of swale

swale wsale sawle aswle wasle awsle swlae wslae slwae lswae wlsae lwsae salwe aslwe slawe lsawe alswe laswe walse awlse wlase lwase alwse lawse swael wsael sawel aswel wasel awsel sweal wseal sewal eswal wesal ewsal saewl asewl seawl esawl aeswl easwl waesl awesl weasl ewasl aewsl eawsl swlea wslea slwea lswea wlsea lwsea swela wsela sewla eswla wesla ewsla slewa lsewa selwa eslwa leswa elswa wlesa lwesa welsa ewlsa lewsa elwsa salew aslew slaew lsaew alsew lasew saelw aselw sealw esalw aeslw easlw sleaw lseaw selaw eslaw lesaw elsaw alesw laesw aelsw ealsw leasw elasw wales awles wlaes lwaes alwes lawes waels awels weals ewals aewls eawls wleas lweas welas ewlas lewas elwas alews laews aelws ealws leaws elaws

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

Definitions and meaning of swale

swale

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sweɪl/
  • Rhymes: -eɪl

Etymology 1

Possibly from Middle English swale (“a shady place, a shadow”), perhaps of North Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse svalr (“cool, fresh”), Icelandic svalir (“a balcony running along a wall”).

Noun

swale (plural swales)

  1. A low tract of moist or marshy land.
  2. A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
  3. A shallow troughlike depression created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
  4. Bioswale, a shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
  5. A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
Translations

Etymology 2

See sweal.

Noun

swale (plural swales)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A gutter in a candle.

Verb

swale (third-person singular simple present swales, present participle swaling, simple past and past participle swaled)

  1. Alternative form of sweal (melt and waste away, or singe)

Anagrams

  • Slewa, Wales, alews, lawes, sweal, wales, weals

Middle English

Noun

swale

  1. Alternative form of whale

Source: wiktionary.org