braille
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of braille
7 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included
name
- Louis Braille
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name
- Louis Braille
noun
- (alt-of, uncountable)Alternative letter-case form of braille.
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(countable, uncountable)A system of writing in which letters and some combinations of letters are represented by raised dots arranged in three or four rows of two dots each and are read by the blind and partially sighted using the fingertips.
“Another difficulty which causes literature in braille to remain scarce is the cumbersomeness of the process of producing braille books.”
adj
- (alt-of, not-comparable)Alternative letter-case form of braille.
- (not-comparable)Of, relating to or written in braille.
verb
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To write in, or convert into, the braille writing system.
“I played back my recorded notes and brailled them.”
“the sponsorship statement on respondent's brailled volumes [...] He admittedly had no knowledge of just how respondent's book [...] came to be brailled”
- (broadly, informal)to identify something by touch.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from French braille, named after French educator Louis Braille (1809–1852). The /eɪl/ seems to reflect a spelling pronunciation; French has /aj/ instead.
Words you can make from braille
102 playable · top: BALLIER (9 pts)
Best play ballier 9 points7-letter words
1 word6-letter words
8 words5-letter words
15 words4-letter words
36 words- ABLE 6 pts
- ABRI 6 pts
- BAIL 6 pts
- BALE 6 pts
- BALL 6 pts
- BARE 6 pts
- BEAL 6 pts
- BEAR 6 pts
- BELL 6 pts
- BIER 6 pts
- BILE 6 pts
- BILL 6 pts
- BIRL 6 pts
- BLAE 6 pts
- BRAE 6 pts
- BRIE 6 pts
- RABI 6 pts
- ARIE 4 pts
- ARIL 4 pts
- EARL 4 pts
- ILEA 4 pts
- LAIR 4 pts
- LARI 4 pts
- LEAL 4 pts
- LEAR 4 pts
- LIAR 4 pts
- LIER 4 pts
- LIRA 4 pts
- LIRE 4 pts
- RAIL 4 pts
- RALE 4 pts
- REAL 4 pts
- RIAL 4 pts
- RIEL 4 pts
- RILE 4 pts
- RILL 4 pts
3-letter words
28 words2-letter words
13 wordsHooks
3 extensions · 3 back
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