Tel in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Tel

You can make 7 words from 'tel' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'tel'
• 2 letters words from 'tel'

3 letters words from 'tel'

ELT 3	LET 3
TEL 3

2 letters words from 'tel'

EL 2	ET 2
TE 2

Definitions and meaning of tel

tel

Etymology 1

Noun

tel (plural tels)

1. Abbreviation of telephone number.
2. Abbreviation of telegraph.
3. Abbreviation of telegram.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

tel (plural tels)

1. Alternative form of tell (“hill or mound”)

Anagrams

• -let, ELT, ETL, LTE, TLE, elt, let

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch tellen, from Middle Dutch tellen, from Old Dutch tellen, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɛ̞ːl]

Verb

tel (present tel, present participle telende, past participle tellende)

1. to count

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

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Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تل‎ (tel).

Noun

tel

1. thread
2. (music) chord, string

Derived terms

• tejzë

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Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tēl (“wire, string; thong; strand”). Cognate with Karakhanid تِلیٖ‎ (tili, “thong”), Crimean Tatar and Turkish tel, Turkmen til, Kumyk and Nogai тел (tel), Chuvash тал (tal, “bundle”). Alternatively, related to Armenian թել (tʿel, “thread”), either as a direct borrowing or originating from the same Iranian source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tel]

Noun

tel (definite accusative teli, plural tellər)

1. strand of hair
2. string
3. wire
4. telegram

5. fringe; bang; forelock
6. tie

Declension

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Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtéːɬ]

Etymology 1

Particle

tēl

1. however, nonetheless

Etymology 2

Noun

tēl inan

1. first-person plural possessive singular of ēlli; (it is) our liver; the human liver.
2. first-person plural possessive plural of ēlli; (they are) our livers.

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Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Compare Ottoman Turkish تل‎ (tel), Old Armenian թել (tʿel).

Noun

tel

1. wire

2. (music) chord, string

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) , “tel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

tel m (plural tellen, diminutive telletje n)

1. count

   De gebedssnoeren worden gebruikt om de tel niet kwijt te raken bij het reciteren of chanten.^[1] — Prayer beads are used in order to not lose count while reciting or chanting.

2. (time) second
3. a short moment

Verb

tel

1. first-person singular present indicative of tellen
2. imperative of tellen

Anagrams

• Let, let

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French

Etymology

From Old French tel, from Latin tālis. Compare Spanish tal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛl/

Adjective

tel (feminine singular telle, masculine plural tels, feminine plural telles)

1. such

Derived terms

• en tant que tel
• telle mère, telle fille
• tel père, tel fils
• tel quel

Pronoun

tel ?

1. one (impersonal pronoun)

Derived terms

• tellement

Further reading

• “tel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English tel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [te̞ɾɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

tel(テル) • (teru) 

1. telephone
2. telephone number

Verb

tel(テル)する • (teru suru) suru (stem tel(テル)し (teru shi), past tel(テル)した (teru shita))

1. (informal) to call (contact by telephone)

Conjugation

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin tālis.

Adjective

tel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tele)

1. such a
   • circa 1050, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland (Oxford manuscript)

     Unques nuls hom tel chevaler ne vit

     Never has a man seen such a knight

Declension

Related terms

• itel

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Old Norse

Verb

tel

1. first-person singular present indicative of telja
2. second-person singular imperative of telja

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Rohingya

Alternative forms

• 𐴃𐴠𐴓𐴢‎ (tel) – Hanifi Rohingya script

Etymology

From Sanskrit तैल (taila).

Noun

tel (Hanifi spelling 𐴃𐴠𐴓𐴢)

1. oil

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تل‎ (tel).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /têl/

Noun

tȅl m (Cyrillic spelling те̏л)

1. (obsolete) thin wire

   Ne biju se tako pobinjice, već se biju od tela kandžijom

2. silver or golden thread or string for sewing or embroidering
   • 1906, Stevan Sremac, Zona Zamfirova:

     Pustila dugu kosu niz pleća i preko grudi, a niz dugu kosu pušta se tel, blešti i treperi tel među crnom bujnom kosom, pa mu izgleda Zona sjajna i svečana kao zavetna ikona.

Declension

References

• 1957, Škaljić Abdulah, Turcizmi u narodnom govoru, Sarajevo
• 1976, Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика, VI. књига, Ц-Ш (стотина), друго фототипско издање, Матица српска, Нови Сад, стр. 171

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Tatar

Noun

tel

1. tongue; language

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛl/

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish تل‎ (tel). See it for more.

Noun

tel (definite accusative teli, plural teller)

1. wire
2. thread
3. string, chord

4. telegram

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of telefon.

Noun

tel

1. Abbreviation of telefon.

Declension

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) , “tel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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Volapük

Numeral

tel

1. two

Derived terms

• telüm

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West Frisian

Adverb

tel

1. (archaic) soon

Further reading

• “tel (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Source: wiktionary.org

• a type of small glassy stone, thought to be a product of meteorite impact.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)