hell
A place or situation of great suffering in life.
Noun 4 meanings
A place or situation of great suffering in life.
“My new boss is making my job a hell.”
A place for gambling.
An extremely hot place.
“You don’t have a snowball's chance in hell.”
In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
Etymology
From Middle English hel, hell, helle, hælle, from Old English hel, hell, from Proto-West Germanic *hallju, from Proto-Germanic *haljō (“hell, netherworld”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). First attested in c. 725.
HELL at a glance
HELL has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (H 4 + E 1 + L 1 + L 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #792 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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