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Yes. The word travail is a Scrabble US word. The word travail is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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7-letter words (1 found)

TRAVAIL,

6-letter words (4 found)

ATRIAL,AVITAL,LARIAT,LATRIA,

5-letter words (23 found)

AARTI,ALTAR,ALVAR,ARTAL,ARVAL,ATRIA,AVAIL,LAARI,LARVA,LAVRA,LIART,RAITA,RATAL,RIATA,RIVAL,TAIRA,TALAR,TIARA,TRAIL,TRIAL,VARIA,VIRAL,VITAL,

4-letter words (35 found)

AIRT,ALAR,ALIT,ARIA,ARIL,ARTI,AVAL,LAIR,LARI,LATI,LAVA,LIAR,LIRA,RAIA,RAIL,RAIT,RATA,RIAL,RIVA,TAAL,TAIL,TALA,TALI,TARA,TAVA,TIAR,TIRL,VAIL,VAIR,VALI,VARA,VIAL,VIRL,VITA,VRIL,

3-letter words (26 found)

AAL,AIA,AIL,AIR,AIT,ALA,ALT,ART,AVA,ITA,LAR,LAT,LAV,LIT,RAI,RAT,RAV,RIA,RIT,TAI,TAR,TAV,TIL,VAR,VAT,VIA,

2-letter words (10 found)

AA,AI,AL,AR,AT,IT,LA,LI,TA,TI,

You can make 99 words from travail according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of travail

travail

Alternative forms

  • travel, travell (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • enPR: trə-vālʹ, trăvʹāl', IPA(key): /tɹəˈveɪl/, /ˈtɹævˌeɪl/
  • Rhymes: -eɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English travail, from Old French travail (“suffering, torment”), deverbal of travailler, from Vulgar Latin *tripāliāre, from Late Latin tripālium, from Latin tripālis (“held up by three stakes”) from Proto-Italic *trēs + *pākslos from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of travel.

Noun

travail (plural travails or travaux)

  1. (literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship. [from 13th c.]
  2. Specifically, the labor of childbirth. [from 13th c.]
  3. (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British). [14th–18th c.]
  4. (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object. [17th c.]
  5. Obsolete form of travel.
  6. Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”)
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Translations
References
  • John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “travail”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “travail”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Etymology 2

From Middle English travailen, from Old French travaillier, from the noun (see above). Doublet of travel. Displaced native Middle English swinken (“to work”) (from Old English swincan (“to labour, to toil, to work at”)).

Verb

travail (third-person singular simple present travails, present participle travailing, simple past and past participle travailed)

  1. To toil.
  2. To go through the labor of childbirth.
Translations

Further reading

  • Tripalium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French travail, from Old French travail, deverbal of travailler.

The plural derives from Old French travauz, early travailz, with vocalization of the lateral before a consonant (/tʁavo/ < /tɾaˈvau̯s/ < /tɾaˈvaʎts/).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁa.vaj/
  • Rhymes: -aj
  • Homophones: travaille, travaillent, travailles

Noun

travail m (plural travaux or travails)

  1. work; labor
    un travail bien fait ― work done well, a job well done
    On se met au travail. ― Let's get to work.
    Remettez-vous au travail. ― Do get to work.
    Il se plonge dans le travail. ― He dives into work.
    Pour la majorité des femmes, le travail commence par des contractions utérine. ― For most women, labor begins with uterine contractions.
  2. job
  3. workplace

Usage notes

  • The less common plural travails is usually only used for the sense of "job."

Synonyms

  • boulot, taf, turbin, job

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French travail.

Noun

travail m (plural travails)

  1. suffering; pain

Descendants

  • French: travail

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (travail, supplement)

Old French

Etymology

Deverbal from travailler.

Noun

travail oblique singular, m (oblique plural travauz or travailz, nominative singular travauz or travailz, nominative plural travail)

  1. suffering, torment

Descendants

  • Middle French: travail
    • French: travail
  • Norman: travas
  • → Middle English: travail
    • English: travail

Source: wiktionary.org