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Is ventail a Scrabble word?

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

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Is ventail a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word ventail is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

V4E1N1T1A1I1L1

Is ventail a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word ventail is a Words With Friends word. The word ventail is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

VENTAIL,

6-letter words (12 found)

ALEVIN,ALVINE,ENTAIL,LEVANT,NATIVE,TENAIL,TINEAL,VALINE,VEINAL,VENIAL,VENTIL,VINEAL,

5-letter words (31 found)

ALIEN,ALINE,ALIVE,ANILE,ANVIL,AVINE,ELAIN,ELINT,ELVAN,ENLIT,ENTIA,INLET,INTEL,LATEN,LEANT,LENTI,LEVIN,LIANE,LIVEN,NAEVI,NAIVE,NAVEL,NIVAL,TELIA,TENIA,TINEA,VALET,VENAL,VINAL,VITAE,VITAL,

4-letter words (67 found)

AINE,ALIT,ANIL,ANTE,ANTI,AVEL,EINA,ELAN,ETNA,EVIL,ILEA,LAIN,LANE,LANT,LATE,LATI,LAVE,LEAN,LEAT,LENT,LEVA,LIEN,LINE,LINT,LITE,LIVE,NAIL,NAVE,NEAL,NEAT,NEVI,NITE,TAEL,TAIL,TAIN,TALE,TALI,TANE,TEAL,TEIL,TEIN,TELA,TIAN,TILE,TINA,TINE,VAIL,VAIN,VALE,VALI,VANE,VANT,VEAL,VEIL,VEIN,VELA,VENA,VENT,VIAE,VIAL,VILE,VINA,VINE,VINT,VITA,VITE,VLEI,

3-letter words (48 found)

AIL,AIN,AIT,ALE,ALT,ANE,ANI,ANT,ATE,AVE,EAN,EAT,ELT,ETA,ITA,LAT,LAV,LEA,LEI,LET,LEV,LIE,LIN,LIT,NAE,NAT,NAV,NET,NIE,NIL,NIT,TAE,TAI,TAN,TAV,TEA,TEL,TEN,TIE,TIL,TIN,VAE,VAN,VAT,VET,VIA,VIE,VIN,

2-letter words (18 found)

AE,AI,AL,AN,AT,EA,EL,EN,ET,IN,IT,LA,LI,NA,NE,TA,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 178 words from ventail according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ventail

ventail

Alternative forms

  • ventaile (obsolete)
  • ventaille (obsolete)
  • ventayle (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ventaile (“mail over lower face and neck; lower front piece of helmet; air hole in helmet”), from Old French ventaille (“lower opening in helmet for air”). Related to aventail.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛn.teɪl/

Noun

ventail (plural ventails)

  1. (historical) Synonym of aventail (“mail curtain or flap, on a helmet or a mail coif, that protects the lower face and neck”)
  2. (historical) The movable front part of a medieval helmet, originally including the visor but later specifically the separate lower section.
    Coordinate term: buffe
    • 1796, Legrand (cit.), Fabliaux Or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth Centuries, page 203:
      The helmet, in its improved state, was composed of two parts; the headpiece, which was strengthened within by several circles of iron; and the visor or ventail, which (as the names imply) was a sort of grating to see or breathe through, so contrived as by sliding in a groove, or turning on a pivot, to be raised or lowered […]
    • 1937, David Jones, In Parenthesis, Part 7:
      no ventaille to this darkening / and masked face lifts to grope the air […].
  3. (historical, rare) A vent or breathing-hole in a medieval helmet, for the admission of air.
    • 1969, John Skelton, Clarendon Medieval and Tudor Series: John Skelton: Poems, Clarendon Medieval and Tudor, page 187:
      398. ventayles : a pun on ventails, 'something acting as a sail or fan', and ventails, the air holes or vents in the vizor of a helmet.

References

  • “ventail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Levitan, Valenti

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɑ̃.taj/

Noun

ventail m (plural ventaux)

  1. post-1990 spelling of vantail

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org