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Is windle a Scrabble word?

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

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Is windle a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is windle a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word windle is a Words With Friends word. The word windle is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

WINDLE,

5-letter words (9 found)

DWILE,DWINE,ELDIN,INDEW,LINED,WIDEN,WIELD,WILED,WINED,

4-letter words (26 found)

DEIL,DELI,DENI,DIEL,DINE,EILD,IDLE,LEND,LEWD,LIED,LIEN,LIND,LINE,LWEI,NIDE,NIED,WEID,WEIL,WELD,WEND,WIDE,WIEL,WILD,WILE,WIND,WINE,

3-letter words (23 found)

DEI,DEL,DEN,DEW,DIE,DIN,ELD,END,IDE,LED,LEI,LEW,LID,LIE,LIN,NED,NEW,NID,NIE,NIL,WED,WEN,WIN,

2-letter words (11 found)

DE,DI,ED,EL,EN,EW,ID,IN,LI,NE,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 71 words from windle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of windle

windle

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwɪndəl/
  • Rhymes: -ɪndəl

Etymology 1

Perhaps from wind.

Noun

windle (plural windles)

  1. (UK, dialect) The redwing.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English windle, windel, from Old English windel (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *windilaz (“wrap; diaper; plaitwork; basket”), equivalent to wind +‎ -le. Related to Old English windan (“to wind, twist”).

Noun

windle (plural windles)

  1. An old English measure of corn, half a bushel.
  2. Any dried-out grass leaf or stalk in a field
    1. Also any of several species of grasses that leave such leaves or stalks, such as dog-tail grass, Plantago lanceolata
  3. Bent grass (Agrostis spp.).
  4. A windlass
  5. A reel for winding something into a bundle, such as winding string or yarn into skeins or straw into bundles.

Verb

windle (third-person singular simple present windles, present participle windling, simple past and past participle windled)

  1. (transitive) To bind straw into bundles.

References

  • “windle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “windle”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • wilden

Source: wiktionary.org