Toil in Scrabble and Meaning

• Finder
• Unscrambler
• Dictionary

Valid words made from Toil

Results

4-letter words (2 found)

3-letter words (4 found)

2-letter words (7 found)

You can make 13 words from toil according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of toil

toil

English

Alternative forms

• toyle (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English toilen, toylen, apparently a conflation of Anglo-Norman toiller (“to agitate, stir up, entangle”) (compare Old Northern French tooillier, tooullier (“to agitate, stir”); of unknown origin), and Middle English tilyen, telien, teolien, tolen, tolien, tulien (“to till, work, labour”), from Old English tilian, telian, teolian, tiolian (“to exert oneself, toil, work, make, generate, strive after, try, endeavor, procure, obtain, gain, provide, tend, cherish, cultivate, till, plough, trade, traffic, aim at, aspire to, treat, cure”) (compare Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to till, work, labour”)), from Proto-Germanic *tilōną (“to strive, reach for, aim for, hurry”). Cognate with Scots tulyie (“to quarrel, flite, contend”).

An alternate etymology derives Middle English toilen, toylen directly from Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to work, labour, till”), from tuyl ("agriculture, labour, toil"; > Modern Dutch tuil (“toil; work”)). Cognate with Old Frisian teula (“to labour, toil”), teule (“labour, work”), Dutch tuil (“toil, labour”). Compare also Dutch telen (“to grow; raise; cultivate, till”). More at till.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔɪl/, /ˈtɔɪəl/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪl, -ɔɪəl

Noun

toil (countable and uncountable, plural toils)

1. Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.

   Synonyms: derve, drudgery, swink, sweat; see also Thesaurus:drudgery
2. Trouble, strife.
3. (usually in the plural) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey.

Derived terms

• toiler
• toilsome

Translations

Verb

toil (third-person singular simple present toils, present participle toiling, simple past and past participle toiled)

1. (intransitive) To labour; work.
2. (intransitive) To struggle.
3. (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
4. (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.

Derived terms

• toil and moil

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “toil”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• -itol, ilot, loti

Basque

Noun

toil

1. conger eel

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tol (“will, desire”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɞlʲ/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɪlʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɔlʲ/

Noun

toil f (genitive singular tola)

1. will

Declension

Derived terms

• le do thoil
• más é do thoil é
• saorthoil
• toilteanach

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “toil”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 740
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “toil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tolʲ/

Noun

toil

1. inflection of tol:
   1. accusative/dative singular
   2. nominative/vocative/accusative dual

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tol (“will, desire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ʰɔl/

Noun

toil f (genitive singular toile, plural toilean)

1. will, desire, volition, inclination
2. delight, pleasure

Derived terms

• is toil le (“like (verb)”)
• mas e do thoil e (“please”)

Derived terms

• mì-thoil (“reluctance”)
• saor-thoil (“free will”)
• toileach (“willing”)

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “toil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tol”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language