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Is vell a Scrabble word?

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

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Is vell a Scrabble UK word?

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

V4E1L1L1

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4-letter words (1 found)

VELL,

3-letter words (2 found)

ELL,LEV,

2-letter words (1 found)

EL,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 5 words from vell according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of vell

vell evll vlel lvel elvl levl vell evll vlel lvel elvl levl vlle lvle vlle lvle llve llve ellv lelv ellv lelv llev llev

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Definitions and meaning of vell

vell

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɛl/
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

vell (third-person singular simple present vells, present participle velling, simple past and past participle velled)

  1. (UK, dialect) To cut the turf from, as for burning.

Etymology 2

Compare Latin vellus (“the skin of a sheep with the wool on it, a fleece, a hide or pelt”), or English fell (“a hide”).

Noun

vell (plural vells)

  1. (UK, dialect) The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag.

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈbeʎ]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈveʎ]
  • Rhymes: -eʎ

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan vell~veyl, from Vulgar Latin veclus, from Latin vetulus, diminutive of vetus. Compare Occitan vièlh, French vieux, Spanish viejo.

Adjective

vell (feminine vella, masculine plural vells, feminine plural velles)

  1. old
    Antonyms: jove, nou
Derived terms
  • vellesa

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin vĕllus, or a variant of velló.

Noun

vell m (plural vells)

  1. (agriculture) fleece
Related terms
  • velló

References

  • “vell” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “vell”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “vell” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “vell” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Icelandic

Verb

vell (strong)

  1. inflection of vella:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Verb

vell (weak)

  1. second-person singular imperative of vella

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

vell n (definite singular vellet, indefinite plural vell, definite plural vella)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of vel

Verb

vell

  1. present tense of velle
  2. imperative of velle

Old Norse

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

vell n

  1. (poetic) gold
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vell

  1. inflection of vella:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Yola

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɛɫ/

Verb

vell

  1. simple past of vall

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 75

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