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Is tenaille a Scrabble word?

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

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Is tenaille a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is tenaille a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word tenaille is a Words With Friends word. The word tenaille is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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8-letter words (1 found)

TENAILLE,

7-letter words (1 found)

LINEATE,

6-letter words (17 found)

ANELLI,ELANET,ENTAIL,LATEEN,LENITE,LENTIL,LIENAL,LINEAL,LINTEL,NELLIE,TAILLE,TELIAL,TELLEN,TELLIN,TENAIL,TENIAE,TINEAL,

5-letter words (25 found)

AINEE,ALIEN,ALINE,ALLEE,ANELE,ANILE,EATEN,ELAIN,ELATE,ELINT,ELITE,ENATE,ENLIT,ENTIA,ILEAL,INLET,INTEL,LATEN,LEANT,LENTI,LIANE,TELAE,TELIA,TENIA,TINEA,

4-letter words (55 found)

AINE,ALEE,ALIT,ANIL,ANTE,ANTI,EALE,EINA,EINE,ELAN,ETEN,ETNA,ILEA,LAIN,LANE,LANT,LATE,LATI,LEAL,LEAN,LEAT,LEET,LENT,LIEN,LILT,LINE,LINT,LITE,NAIL,NEAL,NEAT,NETE,NILL,NITE,TAEL,TAIL,TAIN,TALE,TALI,TALL,TANE,TEAL,TEEL,TEEN,TEIL,TEIN,TELA,TELE,TELL,TENE,TIAN,TILE,TILL,TINA,TINE,

3-letter words (45 found)

AIL,AIN,AIT,ALE,ALL,ALT,ANE,ANI,ANT,ATE,EAN,EAT,EEL,EEN,ELL,ELT,ENE,ETA,ILL,ITA,LAT,LEA,LEE,LEI,LET,LIE,LIN,LIT,NAE,NAT,NEE,NET,NIE,NIL,NIT,TAE,TAI,TAN,TEA,TEE,TEL,TEN,TIE,TIL,TIN,

2-letter words (19 found)

AE,AI,AL,AN,AT,EA,EE,EL,EN,ET,IN,IT,LA,LI,NA,NE,TA,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 164 words from tenaille according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tenaille

tenaille

Etymology

From French tenaille (“a pair of pincers or tongs”), from Latin tenaculum. See tenaculum.

Noun

tenaille (plural tenailles)

  1. (military, historical) An outwork in the main ditch of a fortification, in front of the curtain, between two bastions.

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin tenacula, taken as a feminine singular of Latin tenaculum, from teneō. Compare Occitan and Portuguese tenalha.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tə.naj/
  • Homophones: tenaillent, tenailles, Thenaille, Thenailles

Noun

tenaille f (plural tenailles)

  1. pincer (tool)

Verb

tenaille

  1. inflection of tenailler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • entaille, entaillé

Source: wiktionary.org