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Is taille a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word taille is a Scrabble US word. The word taille is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is taille a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word taille is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

T1A1I1L1L1E1

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6-letter words (2 found)

TAILLE,TELIAL,

5-letter words (2 found)

ILEAL,TELIA,

4-letter words (19 found)

ALIT,ILEA,LATE,LATI,LEAL,LEAT,LILT,LITE,TAEL,TAIL,TALE,TALI,TALL,TEAL,TEIL,TELA,TELL,TILE,TILL,

3-letter words (24 found)

AIL,AIT,ALE,ALL,ALT,ATE,EAT,ELL,ELT,ETA,ILL,ITA,LAT,LEA,LEI,LET,LIE,LIT,TAE,TAI,TEA,TEL,TIE,TIL,

2-letter words (13 found)

AE,AI,AL,AT,EA,EL,ET,IT,LA,LI,TA,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 61 words from taille according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of taille

taille

Etymology

From Middle French taille (“cut”, noun). Doublet of talea and tally.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ
  • Homophones: tie, Ty, Thai

Noun

taille (countable and uncountable, plural tailles)

  1. (historical) A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.
  2. (music, obsolete) The tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola.

Related terms

  • tallage (“a tax”)

Anagrams

  • tallie

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French taille, from Latin talea.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑ.jə/
  • Hyphenation: tail‧le

Noun

taille f (plural tailles, diminutive tailletje n)

  1. waistline

Derived terms

  • wespentaille

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French taille, from Latin talea (“a cutting”). Compare Italian taglia, Catalan talla.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taj/, /tɑj/

Noun

taille f (plural tailles)

  1. the act of cutting, pruning, trimming
    Synonym: coupe
  2. size
    Synonyms: grandeur, gabarit
  3. waist
  4. waistline
  5. a direct tax levied during the Ancien Régime; tallage

Derived terms

Related terms

  • tailler

Descendants

  • → Danish: talje

Further reading

  • “taille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Noun

taille

  1. Alternative form of tayl

Old French

Alternative forms

  • tallie (rare, Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Latin tālea (“a cutting”).

Noun

taille oblique singular, f (oblique plural tailles, nominative singular taille, nominative plural tailles)

  1. cut (act; instance of cutting)
  2. cut; wound; incision (result of being cut)
  3. cut (of clothing)
  4. a count kept by carving notches into a stick
  5. (by extension) a count; a tally
  6. charge; levy; taxation; tax

Descendants

  • Middle French: taille
    • French: taille
      • → Danish: talje
    • → English: taille
  • → Irish: táille
  • → Middle English: talie
    • English: tally

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (taille, supplement)
  • taille on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Source: wiktionary.org