Wool in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Wool

You can make 9 words from 'wool' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'wool'
• 3 letters words from 'wool'
• 2 letters words from 'wool'

4 letters words from 'wool'

WOOL 7

3 letters words from 'wool'

LOO 3	LOW 6
OWL 6	WOO 6

2 letters words from 'wool'

LO 2	OO 2
OW 5	WO 5

Definitions and meaning of wool

wool

Etymology

From Middle English wolle, from Old English wull, from Proto-Germanic *wullō (cognate with Saterland Frisian Wulle, German Low German Wull, Dutch wol, German Wolle, Norwegian ull), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂ (compare Welsh gwlân, Latin lāna, Lithuanian vìlna, Russian во́лос (vólos), Bulgarian влас (vlas), Albanian lesh (“wool, hair, fleece”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wʊl/
• (General American) enPR: wo͝ol, IPA^(key): /wʊl/, [wʊ̠ɫ], [wɫ̩]
• Rhymes: -ʊl

Noun

wool (usually uncountable, plural wools)

1. The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
   • 2006, Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece, page 692

     The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back.

2. A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
3. Anything with a texture like that of wool.
   • 1975, Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet, page 223

     The groundsels have leaves covered in wool for insulation […]

4. A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
5. (obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
6. (Britain, New Zealand) yarn (including that which is made from synthetic fibers.)
7. (Scouse) Derogatory term for residents of the satellite towns outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.

Hyponyms

• (cloth or yarn): felt, tweed, worsted

Coordinate terms

• (hair of sheep): goathair, horsehair, qiviut

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Japanese: ウール (ūru)

Translations

See also

• wool on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Cornish

Noun

wool

1. Soft mutation of gool.

Source: wiktionary.org

• seductive.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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