Is GEL a Scrabble word?
Yes. GEL is a valid Scrabble word in both tournament lists, NWL2023 and Collins, and in ENABLE. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends.
Meaning A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.
Noun 3 meanings
A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.
Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair.
A film of flexible transparent plastic (such as acetate, celluloid, or cellophane) suitable for making superimpositions or diapositives (image to overlay on other images, especially for overhead projectors); a digital virtual equivalent of this.
Verb 4 meanings
To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).
To become a gel: to set up.
To develop a rapport.
“He was a nice guy, and I got on OK with his friends, but the two of us never really gelled.”
To come together to form something; to cohere.
“We put our ideas together and they eventually gelled into a saleable product.”
Etymology
Coined by Thomas Graham in the mid 19th century as a clipping of gelatin, from French gélatine, from Italian gelatina, diminutive form of gelata (“iced”), from Latin gelata, past participle of gelo (“to freeze”), from gelu (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
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GEL at a glance
GEL has 3 letters and scores 4 points in Scrabble (G 2 + E 1 + L 1) and 6 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #8,904 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins (older SOWPODS edition).
Words ending in -GEL
More endings- ANGEL6
- BAGEL8
- SPIEGEL10
- ARCHANGEL15
- HYDROGEL16
- CUDGEL10
- KUGEL10
- EVANGEL11
- AEROGEL8
- MANGEL9
- FLUGEL10
- BEIGEL9
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