gunwale
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
Definition of gunwale
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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The top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, at or above where the hull meets the deck.
“Holonyms: vessel, watercraft”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English gonnewalle, itself from gonne (“gun”) + wale, as it used to support the ship's guns; equivalent to gun + wale.
Words you can make from gunwale
87 playable · top: WANGLE (10 pts)
Best play wangle 10 points6-letter words
2 words5-letter words
6 words4-letter words
31 words- GNAW 8 pts
- WAGE 8 pts
- ANEW 7 pts
- LAWN 7 pts
- WALE 7 pts
- WANE 7 pts
- WAUL 7 pts
- WEAL 7 pts
- WEAN 7 pts
- AGLU 5 pts
- AGUE 5 pts
- EGAL 5 pts
- GAEN 5 pts
- GALE 5 pts
- GANE 5 pts
- GAUN 5 pts
- GEAN 5 pts
- GENU 5 pts
- GLEN 5 pts
- GLUE 5 pts
- GUAN 5 pts
- LANG 5 pts
- LUGE 5 pts
- LUNG 5 pts
- ELAN 4 pts
- LANE 4 pts
- LEAN 4 pts
- LUNA 4 pts
- LUNE 4 pts
- ULAN 4 pts
- ULNA 4 pts
3-letter words
33 words- WAG 7 pts
- AWE 6 pts
- AWL 6 pts
- AWN 6 pts
- LAW 6 pts
- NAW 6 pts
- NEW 6 pts
- WAE 6 pts
- WAN 6 pts
- WEN 6 pts
- AGE 4 pts
- ENG 4 pts
- GAE 4 pts
- GAL 4 pts
- GAN 4 pts
- GEL 4 pts
- GEN 4 pts
- GNU 4 pts
- GUL 4 pts
- GUN 4 pts
- LAG 4 pts
- LEG 4 pts
- LUG 4 pts
- NAG 4 pts
- NEG 4 pts
- NUG 4 pts
- ALE 3 pts
- ANE 3 pts
- EAU 3 pts
- LEA 3 pts
- LEU 3 pts
- LUN 3 pts
- NAE 3 pts
2-letter words
14 wordsHooks
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