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Is wheel a Scrabble word?

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

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Is wheel a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Yes. The word wheel is a Words With Friends word. The word wheel is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

WHEEL,

4-letter words (4 found)

HEEL,HELE,WEEL,WHEE,

3-letter words (7 found)

EEL,EEW,EWE,HEW,LEE,LEW,WEE,

2-letter words (6 found)

EE,EH,EL,EW,HE,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 19 words from wheel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of wheel

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Definitions and meaning of wheel

wheel

Etymology

From Middle English whel, from Old English hwēol, from Proto-West Germanic *hwehwl, from Proto-Germanic *hwehwlą, *hweulō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷlóm, *kʷékʷlos, *kʷékʷléh₂, reduplication of *kʷel- (“to turn”) and a suffix (literally "(the thing that) turns and turns."

See also West Frisian tsjil, Dutch wiel, Danish hjul; also Tocharian B kokale (“cart, wagon”), Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “cycle, wheel”), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬑𐬭𐬀 (caxra), Sanskrit चक्र (cakrá)); and Latin colō (“to till, cultivate”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B käl- (“to bear; bring”), Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō, “to come into existence, become”), Old Church Slavonic коло (kolo, “wheel”), Albanian sjell (“to bring, carry, turn around”), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (caraiti, “it circulates”), Sanskrit चरति (cárati, “it moves, wanders”)). Doublet of charkha, cycle, and chakra.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: wēl, IPA(key): /ʍiːl/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ʍil/, /wil/
  • Homophones: wheal, weal (in accents with the wine-whine merger), weel (in accents with the wine-whine merger), we'll (one pronunciation; in accents with the wine-whine merger)
  • Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

wheel (plural wheels)

  1. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
    1. (informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
    2. (nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
    3. A spinning wheel.
    4. A potter's wheel.
  2. The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
  3. (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
    1. (computing, dated) A superuser on certain systems.
  4. (poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5.
  5. (poker slang) The best low hand in Lowball or High-low split poker: either ace-2-3-4-5 or 2-3-4-5-7, depending on the variant.
  6. (automotive) A wheelrim.
  7. A round portion of cheese.
  8. A Catherine wheel firework.
  9. (obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
  10. A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
  11. (figurative) A recurring or cyclical course of events.
    the wheel of life
  12. (slang, archaic) A dollar.
  13. (UK, slang, archaic) A crown coin; a "cartwheel".
  14. (archaic, informal) A bicycle or tricycle.
  15. A manoeuvre in marching in which the marchers turn in a curving fashion to right or left so that the order of marchers does not change.

Synonyms

  • (instrument of torture): breaking wheel
  • (wheel rim): rim

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See also

  • wheel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

  • Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN

Verb

wheel (third-person singular simple present wheels, present participle wheeling, simple past and past participle wheeled)

  1. (transitive) To roll along on wheels.
    Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
  2. (transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
  3. (intransitive, dated) To ride a bicycle or tricycle.
  4. (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
  5. (transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
  6. (intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
    The vulture wheeled above us.
  7. (transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
  8. (intransitive, grime music) To reload a track; to play a wheel-up.

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  • Lehew

Middle English

Noun

wheel

  1. Alternative form of whel

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English whel, from Old English hwēol.

Noun

wheel

  1. wheel

References

  • Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland

Source: wiktionary.org