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Is yawl a Scrabble word?

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

Y4A1W4L1

Is yawl a Scrabble UK word?

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

Y4A1W4L1

Is yawl a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word yawl is a Words With Friends word. The word yawl is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

Y3A1W4L2

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4-letter words (2 found)

WALY,YAWL,

3-letter words (5 found)

AWL,LAW,LAY,WAY,YAW,

2-letter words (5 found)

AL,AW,AY,LA,YA,

You can make 12 words from yawl according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of yawl

yawl aywl ywal wyal awyl wayl yalw aylw ylaw lyaw alyw layw ywla wyla ylwa lywa wlya lwya awly waly alwy lawy wlay lway

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word yawl. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in yawl.

Definitions and meaning of yawl

yawl

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jɔːl/
  • Homophone: y'all
  • Rhymes: -ɔːl

Etymology 1

Apparently from Low German and Middle Low German jolle, or Dutch jol, possibly ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlos (“tube”), see also Lithuanian aulas, Norwegian aul, Hittite [script needed] (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Latin alvus.

Noun

yawl (plural yawls)

  1. A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
  2. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.
Descendants
  • → Portuguese: aiola, aiole, iole
Translations

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Verb

yawl (third-person singular simple present yawls, present participle yawling, simple past and past participle yawled)

  1. To cry out; to howl.

References

Anagrams

  • waly, wyla

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jol/

Noun

yawl m (plural yawls)

  1. yawl (type of boat)

Further reading

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

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English yawl.

Noun

yawl m (genitive singular yawl, plural yawlyn)

  1. yawl

Source: wiktionary.org