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Is mail a Scrabble word?

Yes, mail is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 points in Scrabble.

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  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of mail?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (now regional) A bag or wallet.Examples: "What, loo, man, see here of dyce a bale; / A brydelynge caste for that is in thy male!"; "Open the Males, yet guard the treaſure ſure. Lay out our golden wedges to the view, That their reflexions may amaze the Perſeans."countableregionaluncountable

2. The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.Examples: "It should be in your mail today, unless the post office lost it!"Synonyms: snail mailAntonyms: email, mailUSuncountable

3. (dated) A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.Examples: "All trains stop at all stations, with the exception of a few "local" stations near Mombasa and an odd flag stop or two usually missed by the mails."; "On the morning after the one-day strike, October 4, one of the Type 4s on crew-training, No. D169, was appropriated to head the 3 a.m. mail to Hull, as no steam locomotive had been lit up and the usual Hull Type 3 was not available; [...]."; "As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: "Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? Where's the mail?" Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon."countabledateduncountable

4. (uncountable) Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.Examples: "Yahoo Mail has been providing mail service since 1997."Synonyms: emailuncountable

5. (uncountable) Email messages conceived in bulk (as with the analogous sense of physical mail).Examples: "You've got mail [old audio clip announcing new email in the 1990s-2000s]"Synonyms: emailuncountable

6. (countable, especially India) An email message.Examples: "Please look through those mails and confirm whether you received the one about scheduling."Synonyms: emailIndiacountableespecially

verb (English)

1. (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.Synonyms: postditransitive

2. (ditransitive) To send by electronic mail.Examples: "Please mail me the spreadsheet by the end of the day."; "There has been a crackdown on non-ARPA use of a local ARPA gateway, so I am reluctant to attempt to mail the file to ARPA sites."; "Since .mp3's are so big (well for me with a 33.6kp/s connection they are anyway) maybe you should offer on your site to mail the file to people who want it, and have them request it, thus saving your web space, your upload time and their download time […]"ditransitive

3. (transitive) To contact (a person) by electronic mail.Examples: "I need to mail my tutor about the deadline."; "I was horrified but my data was OK. Then, it saw it open my e-mail package and start to mail my friends. I turned the power off."; "'Yes, at Quantico. She was so excited by it, she sent all those emails, you remember I told you about it -' 'Yes, she mailed me from there too.'"transitive

noun (English)

1. (uncountable, history) Armour consisting of metal rings linked together.Examples: "The knight is laid in his mail, only the hands and face being bare."; ""That's funny looking mail, Sire," said Eustace. "Aye, lad," said Tirian. "No Narnian dwarf smithied that. […]"; "Under the sea-girt cliffs the shining ship was readied, laden with coats of mail, swords, and gleaming war harness."uncountableusually

2. (uncountable, by extension, now fiction, fantasy) Armour consisting of small plates linked together.broadlyuncountableusually

3. (nautical) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.uncountableusually

4. (obsolete, rare) A spot on a bird's feather; by extension, a spotted feather.Examples: "[T]he moorish-fly: made with the body of duskish wool; and the wings made of the blackish mail of the drake."obsoleterareuncountableusually

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To arm with mail.transitive

2. (transitive) To pinion.transitive

noun (English)

1. (historical) An old French coin worth half a denier.historical

2. (chiefly Scotland) A monetary payment or tribute.Scotland

3. (chiefly Scotland) Rent.Scotland

4. (chiefly Scotland) Tax.Scotland

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "mail"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "mail"?

Scrabble
6 points
M3
A1
I1
L1
Words With Friends
8 points
M4
A1
I1
L2

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