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Is vail a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word vail is a Scrabble US word. The word vail is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

V4A1I1L1

Is vail a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word vail is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

V4A1I1L1

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You can make 10 words from 'vail' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

4 letters words from 'vail'

VAIL 7VALI 7
VIAL 7 

3 letters words from 'vail'

AIL 3LAV 6
VIA 6 

2 letters words from 'vail'

AI 2AL 2
LA 2LI 2

All 4 letters words made out of vail

vail avil vial ival aivl iavl vali avli vlai lvai alvi lavi vila ivla vlia lvia ilva liva ailv ialv aliv laiv ilav liav

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

Definitions and meaning of vail

vail

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /veɪl/
  • Rhymes: -eɪl
  • Homophones: vale, veil

Etymology 1

From Middle English vayle, from Old French vail, from valoir (“to be worth”), from Latin valeō (“I am worth”).

Noun

vail (plural vails)

  1. (obsolete) Profit; return; proceeds.
    • 1605, George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston, Eastward Hoe, London: William Aspley, Act II, Scene 2,[1]
      My house is as t’were the Caue, where the yong Out-lawe hoords the stolne vayles of his occupation […]
  2. (chiefly in the plural, obsolete) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale.
    • 1696, John Dryden, The Husband His Own Cuckold, London: J. Tonson, Act I, Scene 1, p. 9,[2]
      Do you remember, how many Rich Gowns and Petticoats, how many lac’d Pinners, Hoods, Scarfs, and Nightrails, I have given you, since the three Years you have serv’d me, together with many other Vails, Perquisites, and Profits you have enjoy’d in my Service?
    • 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews, London: Harrison & Co., 1780, Volume I, Book 2, Chapter 16, p. 91,[3]
      […] it is a maxim among the gentlemen of our cloth, that those masters who promise the most, perform the least; and I have often heard them say, they have found the largest vails in those families where they were not promised any.

Etymology 2

From Middle English valen; either from Anglo-Norman valer or a clipping of avalen. Compare avale.

Noun

vail (plural vails)

  1. (obsolete) Submission.

Verb

vail (third-person singular simple present vails, present participle vailing, simple past and past participle vailed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To lower, let fall; to allow or cause to sink.
    • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
      Then let them vale a bonet of their proud ſayle,
      And of their taunting toies reſt with il hayle.
    • 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[4]
      […] when he shall know it lies in vs,
      To banish him, and then to call him home,
      Twill make him vaile the topflag of his pride,
      And feare to offend the meanest noble man.
    • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act V, Scene 1,[5]
      […] Vail your regard
      Upon a wrong’d, I would fain have said, a maid!
  2. (transitive, vexillology) To lower or “dip” a carried flag or banner in a salute by a forward reducing of the angle of the pike/flagstaff with respect to the ground; in extreme instances, as when saluting a monarch, both the banner and the finial of the pike are allowed to rest upon the ground.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete, nautical) To lower a sail, in salute or otherwise.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat.
    • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act V, Scene 3,[6]
      […] Now the time is come
      That France must vail her lofty-plumed crest
      And let her head fall into England’s lap.
    • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 5,[7]
      […] the Templar […] , without vailing his bonnet, or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic, took from his neck a gold chain, which he flung on the board […]
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To pay homage, bow, submit, defer (to someone or something); to yield, give way (to something).
    • 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Act IV, Prologue,[8]
      She would with rich and constant pen
      Vail to her mistress Dian;
    • 1690, John Locke, An Essay concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book 4, Chapter 17, p. 346,[9]
      […] when a Man does not readily vail to the Opinions of approved Authors, which have been received with respect and submission by others
    • 1692, Robert South, Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions, Boston: Bowles & Dearborn, 1827, Discourse 5, p. 370,[10]
      Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbour’s necessity.

Etymology 3

Noun

vail (plural vails)

  1. Archaic form of veil.
  2. Misspelling of veil.

Verb

vail (third-person singular simple present vails, present participle vailing, simple past and past participle vailed)

  1. Archaic form of veil.
  2. Misspelling of veil.

Anagrams

  • LAIV, VALI, Vali, Vial, Vila, vali, vial, vila

Source: wiktionary.org
  • VAHANA, (Sanskrit) a vehicle in Indian myth.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)