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You can make 18 words from tile according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of tile

tile itle tlie ltie ilte lite tiel itel teil etil ietl eitl tlei ltei teli etli leti elti ilet liet ielt eilt leit elit

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

Definitions and meaning of tile

tile

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /taɪl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ.əl/
• Rhymes: -aɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English tile, tyle, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tieġle, tiġle, tiġele (“tile; brick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tigulā, from Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ (“tile”), from Latin tēgula. Doublet of tegula.

Noun

tile (plural tiles)

1. A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile, etc.
2. (computing) A rectangular graphic.

3. Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
4. (dated, informal) A stiff hat.
   • 1911, Charles Collins, Fred E. Terry and E.A. Sheppard, "Any Old Iron", British Music Hall song

     Dressed in style, brand-new tile, And your father's old green tie on.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Bengali: টালি (ṭali)
• → Japanese: タイル (tairu)
• → Korean: 타일 (tail)
• → Nepali: टाइल (ṭāil)
• → Odia: ଟାଇଲ୍ (ṭail)
• → Welsh: teils

Translations

Verb

tile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)

1. (transitive) To cover with tiles.
2. (graphical user interface) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
3. (computing theory) To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
4. (Freemasonry) To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.

Derived terms

• tiler

Translations

Etymology 2

See tiler (“doorkeeper at a Masonic lodge”).

Alternative forms

• tyle

Verb

tile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)

1. To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.

See also

• Tile Hill

Anagrams

• -lite, IELT, Tiel, lite, teil, tiel

Bambara

Noun

tìlé

1. sun
2. day, daytime, the heat of the day
3. epoch, era

Derived terms

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

tile m (genitive singular tile, nominative plural tilí)

1. (nautical, literary) board, plank (of boat)
2. (nautical)
   1. sheets
   2. poop

Declension

Derived terms

• ráille tile (“poop-rail”)
• tile tosaigh (“fore-sheet”)
• tile deiridh (“stern-sheet”)

Mutation

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “tile” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “tile” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

tile

1. locative singular of tila (“sesame”)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Pipil tlilli.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtile/ [ˈt̪i.le]
• Rhymes: -ile
• Syllabification: ti‧le

Noun

tile m (plural tiles)

1. (El Salvador, Honduras) soot

   Synonym: hollín

2. (poetic, Honduras) darkness

   Synonym: oscuridad

3. (colloquial, Honduras) hard, complicated

Further reading

• “tile”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• tile | Diccionario de americanismos | ASALE