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Is trammel a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word trammel is a Scrabble US word. The word trammel is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is trammel a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word trammel is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

T1R1A1M3M3E1L1

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Yes. The word trammel is a Words With Friends word. The word trammel is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

TRAMMEL,

6-letter words (6 found)

ARMLET,LAMMER,MARTEL,RAMMEL,RAMMLE,TRAMEL,

5-letter words (17 found)

ALERT,ALTER,ARMET,ARTEL,LAMER,LATER,LEMMA,MAERL,MARLE,MATER,METAL,RAMET,RATEL,REALM,TALER,TAMER,TREMA,

4-letter words (41 found)

ALME,ARET,ARLE,EARL,EMMA,LAER,LAME,LARE,LATE,LEAM,LEAR,LEAT,MALE,MALM,MALT,MARE,MARL,MARM,MART,MATE,MEAL,MEAT,MELA,MELT,MERL,META,RALE,RATE,REAL,REAM,TAEL,TALE,TAME,TARE,TEAL,TEAM,TEAR,TELA,TERM,TRAM,TREM,

3-letter words (36 found)

ALE,ALT,AME,ARE,ARM,ART,ATE,EAR,EAT,ELM,ELT,ERA,ERM,ETA,LAM,LAR,LAT,LEA,LET,MAE,MAL,MAM,MAR,MAT,MEL,MEM,MET,RAM,RAT,REM,RET,TAE,TAM,TAR,TEA,TEL,

2-letter words (17 found)

AE,AL,AM,AR,AT,EA,EL,EM,ER,ET,LA,MA,ME,MM,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 119 words from trammel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of trammel

trammel

Etymology

From Middle English trameyle, from Old French tramail (“net for catching fish”), from Late Latin tremaculum, from tri- (“tri-”) +‎ macula (“spot, speck; mesh, cell”). Cognate with Italian tramaglio (“trammel”), Spanish trasmallo (“drift net”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtræməl/
  • Rhymes: -æməl

Noun

trammel (plural trammels)

  1. Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
  2. A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
  3. A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
    • 1633,
      The tuck carrieth a like fashion , save that it is narrower meshed , and ( therefore scarce lawful ) with a long bunt in the midst : the trammel differeth not much from the shape of this bunt, and serveth to such use as the wear and haking.
  4. A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc.
  5. A net for confining a woman's hair.
  6. A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
  7. (engineering) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.
  8. A beam compass.

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Verb

trammel (third-person singular simple present trammels, present participle (UK) trammelling or (US) trammeling, simple past and past participle (UK) trammelled or (US) trammeled)

  1. To entangle, as in a net.
  2. (transitive) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

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Anagrams

  • Lammert

Source: wiktionary.org