Earl

Definition: Earl

Earl

Noun

1. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.

"Earl" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a nobleman", "a warrior".

Date "Earl" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definitions
19th Century Satire	A title of nobility. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

An Earl is a member of the British peerage ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount. The Earl is the British equivalent of the continental Count. The wife of an Earl is a Countess. The eldest son of an Earl generally has the courtesy title of Viscount or Lord, younger sons are known as the Honourable [Firstname] [Lastname] and daughters are known as Lady [Firstname] [Lastname] (the most obvious example being Lady Diana Spencer). Some earldoms can be inheirited by women if they have no brothers. The husband of a Countess recieves no style.

The word derives from Middle English "erl" meaning warrior, nobleman, equivalent to the jarl in Old Norse. It's unclear whether there exists connection by etymology to the Anglo-Saxon term "Ealdorman" which translates literally as "Elder", "Senior", and refers to a chief counselor of the realm. That term survives in modern English as "Alderman", a councilman or representative in local government or a local church governing body.

Earls were originally essentially a royal governor. The English kings found it dangerous to give this additional power to an already powerful aristocrat, and so gradually this role was assumed by the sheriffs. The details of this transition are hard to pin down, since earls in more peripheral areas (the Scottish and Welsh marches, and Cornwall) retained some viceregal powers long after other earls had lost them. The loosening of central authority during the Anarchy also complicates any smooth description of the changeover.

A loose connection between earls and shires remained for a long time after authority had moved over to the sheriffs. An official defining characteristic of an earl was the receipt of the "third penny" of the revenues of justice of a shire. Thus every earl was associated with some shire, and very often a new creation would be made in favor of the county where the new earl already had large estates and local influence.

Also, due to the this association of earls and shires, the medieval practice was somewhat loose regarding the precise name used: no confusion could arise by calling someone earl of a shire, earl of the county town of the shire, or earl of some other prominent place in the shire; these were all synomynous. Thus, we have the "earl of Shrewsbury" (Shropshire), "earl of Arundel" or "earl of Cichester" (Sussex), "earl of Winchester" (Hampshire), etc. In a few cases the earl was traditionally addressed by his family name, e.g. the "earl Warenne" (in this case the practice may have arisen because these earls had little or no property in Surrey, their official county).

As this last case illustrates, it was not always true that an earl had an intimate assocation with "his" county. Another example is the earls of Oxford, whose property was largely in Essex. They became earls of Oxford because there already were earls of Essex and of the other nearby shires.

Eventually the connection between an earl and a shire was lost, so that in the present day there are a number of earldoms named for towns, mountains, or simply last names. Nevertheless, some consider the earldoms named for counties (or county towns) to be more prestigeous.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
EARL	English	Electronic Access to Resources in Libraries	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amusement	Cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game; loo, cribbage, besique, euchre, drole, ecarte, picquet, allfours, quadrille, omber, reverse, Pope Joan, commit; boston, boaston; blackjack, twenty-one, vingtun; quinze, thirty-one, put, speculation, connections, brag, cassino, lottery, commerce, snip-snap-snoren, lift smoke, blind hookey, Polish bank, Earl of Coventry, Napoleon, patience, pairs; banker; blind poker, draw poker, straight poker, stud poker; bluff, bridge, bridge whist; lotto, monte, three-card monte, nap, penny-ante, poker, reversis, squeezers, old maid, fright, beggar-my-neighbor; baccarat.
Nobility	King; (master); atheling; prince, duke; marquis, marquisate; earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret; baronet, baronetcy; knight, knighthood; count, armiger, laird; signior, seignior; esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour; emir, ameer, scherif, sharif, effendi, wali; sahib; chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave, pasha, rajah, waldgrave.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Can't he be both, like the late Earl Warren? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Is Earl Peterson there? (Female Trouble; writing credit: John Waters) I say it is a dis--disgrace that people what calls theirselves human beings should waste their substance, as Shakespeare says, in riotous weddings like this here as is being prepared by the Earl of Stokeshire and his blood-sucking parasites! (Wedding Rehearsal; writing credit: Lajos Bir�; George Grossmith) Man, Earl said you guys were young, butjeez. (Beavis and Butt-head Do America; writing credit: Mike Judge;) How bout my cousin Earl and his wife? (Baby Blues; writing credit: Neal Boushell; Leonard Dick)
Lyrics	They tasted all right to me Earl. ("Goodbye Earl"; performing artist: Dixie Chicks)
Movie/TV Titles	The Legend of Earl Durand (1974) Earl Carroll Sketchbook (1946) A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940) The Earl of Chicago (1940) Teddy Tetzlaff and Earl Cooper (1913)
Song Titles	Duke of Earl (performing artist: Gene Chandler)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Suspicious Affair/an Angel for the Earl (reference) Earl Mindell's New Herb Bible (reference) Earl Mindell's Supplement Bible (reference) Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible for the 21st Century (reference) Earl Nightingale's Greatest Discovery: 'the Strangest Secret...Revisited' (Pma Book Series) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	The Jazz Channel Presents Earl Klugh (BET on Jazz) (reference) Rebound - The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault (reference) Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Earl (reference) Earl Goes to the Races (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Toe Jam & Earl (reference) Toe Jam & Earl II (reference) Toe Jam & Earl III (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	Bodum Chambord Earl Grey Tea Infuser (reference) Henckels Earl 45-Piece Stainless Steel Flatware Set, Service for 8 (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A 90-foot tower wrecked by a storm Triangulation party of Earl O. Heaton.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Wind tarps draping tower at Station Bippus Wind tarps protect inner instrument tower from wind Triangulation party of Earl O. Heaton.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Removing wind tarps at Station Umbarger Wind tarps protect inner instrument tower from wind Triangulation party of Earl O. Heaton.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		African American farmer, Earl Shelby and County Agent Roger Jones check Shelby's tomatoes in Perry County, MS.Credit: USDA.
	Black farmer Earl Shelby looks at his hogs near Petal, MS.Credit: USDA.		Tomato patch owned by Earl Shelby Near Petal Mississippi.Credit: USDA.
	Earl shelby cultivates ocra field in Perry County, Mississippi.Credit: USDA.		[Col. Earl H. Bruns].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Earl and Chesterfield	History is only a confused heap of facts.
	Even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
	Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.
Earl and Mansfield	Let justice be done, though the heavens fall!
Earl Nightingale	Each day try to find some way in which your work can be improved.
Earl Rochester	All men would be cowards if they could.
Earl Wilson	Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
	Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't.
	Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Magna Carta	1215	If any of our earls or barons, or others holding of us in chief by military service shall have died, and at the time of his death his heir shall be full of age and owe "relief", he shall have his inheritance by the old relief, to wit, the heir or heirs of an earl, for the whole baroncy of an earl by L100; the heir or heirs of a baron, L100 for a whole barony; the heir or heirs of a knight, 100s, at most, and whoever owes less let him give less, according to the ancient custom of fees. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	Then she beckoned Sylvie to come and take his hand, and signed to the children to go back to where the Earl was seated.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	That the Earl of Richmond Is with a mighty power landed at Milford Is colder tidings, yet they must be told.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Earl" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 54.10% of the time. "Earl" is used about 2,205 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	54.1%	1,193	6,487
Noun (proper)	45.85%	1,011	7,304
Unclassified Items	0.05%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	2,205	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "Earl" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Earl	First name Male	193,000	98
Earl	Last name	6,000	1,950
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

"Earl" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a nobleman", "a warrior".

The following table summarizes names related to "Earl."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Earl	Male	English	N/A
Earle	Male	English	Earl
Earleen	Female	English	Earl
Earlene	Female	English	Earl
Earline	Female	English	Earl
Erle	Male	English	Earl
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

1. Earl, NC (town, FIPS 19140)
Location: 35.19493 N, 81.53429 W
Population (1990): 230 (104 housing units)
Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

2. Earl, WI
Zip Code(s): 54875
Country: USA

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Expressions: Earl

Expressions using "Earl": 1st Earl Attlee ♦ 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley ♦ 1st Earl of Balfour ♦ Earl marshal ♦ Earl marshal of England ♦ Earl marshal of Scotland ♦ earl of Leicester ♦ earl of Warwick ♦ Earl Park ♦ earl Russell ♦ earl Warren ♦ East Earl ♦ first Earl Kitchener of Khartoum ♦ first Earl of Beaconsfield ♦ first Earl of Chatham ♦ first Earl of Orford ♦ first Earl Wavell ♦ fourth Earl of Chesterfield ♦ fourth Earl of Orford ♦ James Earl Carter ♦ James Earl Carter Jr. ♦ second Earl Grey ♦ second Earl of Chatham ♦ second Earl of Guilford. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Earl

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
earl jean	250
earl	229
earl scheib	135
earl miller	119
good bye earl	97
earl may	96
earl thomas conley	94
earl scruggs	87
earl restaurant	86
harley earl	84
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Earl

Language		Translations for "Earl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kont (count, landgrave). (various references)

Arabic		‏الايرل لقب انكليزي. (various references)

Bulgarian		граф (count). (various references)

Chinese		伯爵 (count). (various references)

Czech		hrabì (count). (various references)

Danish		greve (count). (various references)

Dutch		graaf (count, graph a non-empty but finite set of vertices(or nodes)together with a set of edges that join pairs of distinct vertices). (various references)

Esperanto		grafo (count). (various references)

Faeroese		greivi (count). (various references)

Farsi		کنت(انگلیس). (various references)

Finnish		kreivi (count). (various references)

French		comte (earldom). (various references)

Frisian		greve (count). (various references)

German		graf (count). (various references)

Greek		κόμησ (count). (various references)

Hungarian		gróf (count). (various references)

Icelandic		greifi (count). (various references)

Indonesian		gelar bangsawan (baron). (various references)

Italian		conte (count). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		伯爵 (count). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		はくしゃく (count), はく (be worn off, chief official, come off, command esteem, commanding esteem, count, counter for nights of a stay, discolor, doctor, eldest brother, exhibition, exposition, fade, fair, gain, gaining, oak, peel off, Ph.D., receive, receiving, to breathe, to brush, to disgorge, to gather up, to put on, to sweep, to tell, to vomit, to wear, uncle, win acclaim, winning acclaim). (various references)

Manx		eearley (count, count nobleman). (various references)

Norwegian		jarl, greve (count). (various references)

Papiamen		konde (count). (various references)

Pig Latin		earlay.(various references)

Portuguese		tímpano de ouvido, conde (count, earldom, thane). (various references)

Romanian		conte englez. (various references)

Russian		граф (count, graph). (various references)

Scottish		iarla (an earl). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		grof (count). (various references)

Spanish		conde (count). (various references)

Swedish		greve (count), engelsk greve. (various references)

Thai		ตำแหน่งขุนนางอังกฤษ. (various references)

Turkish		kont (count, county). (various references)

Ukranian		граф (county), воїн (fighter, warrior), дворянин (gentleman, nobleman). (various references)

Welsh		iarll. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Earl

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	comes, comite, comites, comitibus, comitum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Earl

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Earl": earlap, earlaps, earldom, earldoms, earless, earlier, earliest, earliness, earlinesses, earlobe, earlobes, earlock, earlocks, earls, earlship, earlships, early, earlywood, earlywoods. (additional references)
	Words ending with "Earl": impearl, pearl. (additional references)
	Words containing "Earl": bearlike, biyearly, clearly, dearly, fearless, fearlessly, fearlessness, fearlessnesses, gearless, impearled, impearling, impearls, interlinearly, linearly, nearlier, nearliest, nearly, pearlash, pearlashes, pearled, pearler, pearlers, pearlescence, pearlescences, pearlescent, pearlier, pearliest, pearling, pearlite, pearlites, pearlitic, pearlized, pearls, pearly, rectilinearly, semiyearly, shearling, shearlings, tearless, yearlies, yearling, yearlings, yearlong, yearly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Earl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aecl, aeol, Aerol, arl, Cearl, Dearl, eacl, eadr, eal, Eala, ealr, ealu, eara, eard, eare, earh, earlem, earm, earo, earole, earp, earr, eart, earu, Eatro, eaul, ecar, eirl, Ejalu, ekarro, elar, emari, eor, Eorl, erai, Eraill, eral, Eralp, erao, erel, erl, erll, erlo, eural, eurl, Euryl, euyll, exar, Eyal, Ezard, iral, larl, nearl, oarl, Searl, varl, yarl, yearl. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Earl"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Earl" (pronounced er"l)
2	er" l	birle, Burl, curl, girl, herl, hurl, merl, Merle, Pearl, swirl, twirl, unfurl, whirl, whorl.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Earl

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: lear, rale, real.
	Words within the letters "a-e-l-r"
	-1 letter: ale, are, ear, era, lar, lea.
	-2 letters: ae, al, ar, el, er, la, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-l-r"
	+1 letter: abler, alder, alert, alter, areal, argle, ariel, arles, artel, baler, blare, blear, carle, clear, earls, early, farle, feral, flare, glare, haler, lacer, lader, lager, laker, lamer, laree, lares, large, laser, later, laver, laxer, layer, learn, lears, leary, paler, parle, pearl, rales, ratel, ravel, realm, reals, regal, relax, relay, renal, seral, taler, ureal, velar, waler.
	+2 letters: aerial, aerily, aglare, alders, alegar, alerts, aliner, allure, almner, alters, ambler, ampler, angler, antler, arable, areola, areole, argled, argles, argyle, ariels, ariled, armlet, artels, ashler, aulder, bailer, balder, balers, balker, baller, barbel, barely, barley, barrel, bawler, blamer, blared, blares, blazer, blears, bleary, boreal, calker, caller, calmer, carcel, carles, carpel, carrel, cartel, carvel, cellar, cereal, claret, claver, clawer, clears, coaler, cradle, credal, darkle, darnel, dartle, dealer, dearly, derail, dermal, dialer, earful, earlap, eclair, elater, elytra, estral, fabler, faller, falser, falter, fardel, farfel, farles, ferial, ferula, flaker, flamer, flared, flares, flayer, florae, galere, galore, gaoler, garble, gargle, glaire, glared, glares, glazer, gravel, hailer, halers, haleru, halter, hauler, healer, herald, herbal, irreal, jailer, laager, labret, lacers, lacier, lacker, ladder, laders, ladler, lagers, lagger, laired, lakers, lakier, lamber, lancer, lander, lanker, lanner, lapper, lapser, larded, larder, larees, larger, larges, larine, larked, larker, larvae, lasers, lasher, laster, lather, latter, lauder, laurae, laurel, laveer, lavers, lawyer, layers, lazier, leader, leaker, leaner, leaper, learns, learnt, leaser, leaver, lekvar, librae, linear, loader, loafer, loaner, loreal, lyrate, mailer, malgre, marble, marcel, marled, marvel, mauler, medlar, morale, nailer, nearly, neural, oracle, ordeal, palier, palmer, palter, parcel, parled, parles, parley, parole, parrel, pearls, pearly, pedlar, placer, planer, plater, player, pleura, prelaw, rabble, rackle, raddle, raffle, raggle, railed, railer, rallye, ramble, rankle, rappel, rarely, rassle, ratels, rattle, ravels, realer, reales, realia, really, realms, realty, recall, reclad, recoal, rectal, redial, refall, regale, regnal, relace, relaid, relate, relays, reload, reloan, remail, renail, rental, repeal, replan, replay, resail, resale, reseal, retail, retial, retral, reveal, sailer, salter, salver, saurel, scaler, sclera, sealer, serail, serial, serval, slaker, slater, slaver, slayer, staler, stelar, tailer, talers, talker, taller, tergal, thaler, tramel, travel, unreal, valuer, varlet, vealer, velars, verbal, vernal, versal, wailer, walers, walker, warble, warsle, whaler, yarely, yearly.
	+3 letters: acerola, adrenal, aerials, aerogel, aerosol, aileron, airhole, airless, airlike, airline, alarmed, alegars, alerted, alerter, alertly, aleuron, algebra, aliener, alienor, aligner, aliners, allayer, alleger, allegro, allergy, allover, allured, allurer, allures, almemar, almners, almoner, already, altered, alterer, amblers, angerly, anglers, antlers, apparel, applier, apteral, arables, areally, areolae, areolar, areolas, areoles, argyles, armhole, armless, armlets, armlike, arsenal, article, artless, ashlers, atelier, aureola, aureole, auricle, babbler, baffler, bailers, balkers, balkier, ballers, balmier, barbell, barbels, barbule, barless, barleys, barrels, battler, bawlers, becrawl, bedrail, belabor, bilayer, blabber, blacker, bladder, blamers, blander, blanker, blarney, blaster, blather, blatter, blazers, bleaker, bleared, bleater, bloater, brabble, brailed, braille, braless, bramble, brattle, bravely, brawled, brawler, brawlie, cackler, cajoler, caldera, caliber, calibre, caliper, calkers, callers, calorie, caloyer, cameral, candler, caramel, caravel, carcels, careful, cariole, carless, carline, caroled, caroler, carpale, carpels, carrell, carrels, cartels, carvels, caulker, caviler, cellars, central, ceramal, cereals, charley, charlie, charnel, cholera, chorale, choreal, clabber, clacker, claimer, clamber, clammer, clamper, clanger, clapper, claquer, clarets, claries, claroes, clasher, clasper, classer, clatter, clavers, clavier, clawers, clayier, cleaner, cleared, clearer, clearly, cleaver, coalers, coalier, coracle, corneal, craaled, crackle, cradled, cradler, cradles, crankle, crawled, crawler, creedal, crestal, curable, dabbler, dallier, dandler, dangler, dareful, dariole, darkled, darkles, darnels, dartled, dartles, dawdler, dazzler, dealers, declare, decrial, delator, delayer, deliria, derails, dextral, dialers, dialler, dilater, drabble, draggle, drawled, drawler, dryable, durable, eagerly, earflap, earfuls, earlaps, earldom, earless, earlier, earlobe, earlock, earplug, earthly, eclairs, elaters, emerald, empaler, enabler, engrail, enlarge, ensnarl, enteral, enthral, ephoral, escolar, estrual, eternal, exalter, fablers, failure, fallers, falters, fardels, farfels, fearful, federal, felspar, femoral, ferulae, ferulas, filaree, flagger, flakers, flakier, flamers, flamier, flaneur, flanger, flanker, flapper, flareup, flasher, flatter, flawier, flaxier, flayers, floater, fragile, frailer, frazzle, frenula, friable, funeral, gabbler, galeres, gallery, galores, gambler, gambrel, gangrel, gaolers, garbled, garbler, garbles, gargled, gargler, gargles, general, glacier, gladder, gladier, glaired, glaires, glancer, glarier, glazers, glazier, gleamer, gleaner, gloater, glomera, gnarled, gomeral, grabble, gracile, grackle, granule, grapnel, grapple, graupel, gravels, gravely, greatly, gremial, greylag, hackler, haggler, hailers, halberd, halbert, haltere, halters, halvers, handler, harelip, harslet, haulers, haulier, haverel, healers, heralds, herbals, hernial, hirable, humeral, impaler, impearl, inhaler, inlayer, irately, jailers, jangler, klavern, kraaled, laagers, labeler, labored, laborer, labrets, lackers, lacquer, ladders, ladlers, ladrone, lagered, laggers, lambers, lambert, lambier, lampers, lamprey, lamster, lancers, landers, landler, langrel, lankier, lanners, lantern, lappers, lapsers, larceny, larches, larders, lardier, largely, largess, largest, larkers, larkier, lashers, lassoer, lasters, laterad, lateral, lathers, lathery, lathier, latrine, lauders, laugher, launder, laurels, laveers, lawyers, layered, layover, lazaret, leacher, leaders, leadier, leafier, leaguer, leakers, leakier, leaners, leapers, learier, learned, learner, leasers, leather, leavers, leavier, leeward, legator, lekvars, lempira, leopard, leotard, levator, liberal, librate, literal, loaders, loafers, loamier, loaners, loather, locater, loricae, loyaler, lucarne, lurdane, lyrated, mailers, malmier, maltier, mandrel, mangler, manlier, marbled, marbler, marbles, marcels, marlier, marline, marlite, martlet, marvels, maulers, mealier, medlars, mineral, miracle, morales, morulae, nailers, nargile, nebular, neurula, neutral, nuclear, numeral, oarless, oarlike, ocellar, oracles, ordeals, overall, overlap, overlax, overlay, paddler, palaver, palfrey, pallier, palmers, palmier, palters, parable, parcels, parleys, paroled, parolee, paroles, parrels, parsley, partlet, pearled, pearler, peartly, pedlars, pedlary, peloria, percale, pergola, perilla, peroral, persalt, perusal, petrale, peytral, placers, plaguer, plainer, plaiter, planers, planner, planter, plasher, plaster, platers, platier, platter, players, pleader, pleaser, pleater, plectra, plenary, pleurae, pleural, pleuras, praline, prattle, preanal, predial, prelacy, prelate, premeal, preplan, presale, prevail, prolate, psalter, pteryla, puberal, quarrel, rabbled, rabbler, rabbles, raddled, raddles, radiale, radicel, radicle, radulae, raffled, raffler, raffles, raggles, railers, rallied, rallier, rallies, ralline, rallyes, ralphed, rambled, rambler, rambles, ramilie, rampole, rankled, rankles, ranulae, rappels, rassled, rassles, ratable, rathole, ratlike, ratline, rattled, rattler, rattles, raveled, raveler, ravelin, ravelly, rayless, raylike, readily, realest, realgar, realign, realise, realism, realist, reality, realize, reallot, realter, realtor, reapply, reavail, recalls, recital, reclaim, reclame, reclasp, reclean, recoals, recusal, redials, redtail, refalls, reflate, refloat, refusal, refutal, regaled, regaler, regales, regalia, regally, reginal, reglaze, regular, relabel, relaced, relaces, relapse, related, relater, relates, relator, relaxed, relaxer, relaxes, relaxin, relayed, relearn, release, reliant, reloads, reloans, remails, removal, renails, renewal, rentals, repanel, repeals, replace, replans, replant, replate, replays, replead, replica, reposal, resails, resales, rescale, reseals, reslate, retable, retails, retinal, retrial, revalue, reveals, revisal, revival, ridable, rivaled, ropable, roseola, roulade, rouleau, rowable, rubella, rubeola, ruderal, rulable, saddler, safrole, sailers, sallier, saltern, salters, saltier, saltire, saluter, salvers, sampler, saurels, scalare, scalers, scalier, scalper, scarlet, sclerae, scleral, scleras, sealers, sealery, secular, serails, serials, serosal, serumal, servals, several, shalier, shoaler, slabber, slacker, slakers, slammer, slander, slapper, slasher, slaters, slather, slatier, slavers, slavery, slayers, smaller, snarled, snarler, solacer, spaller, sparely, sparkle, spheral, stabler, stalker, stapler, starlet, startle, stealer, stellar, sternal, surreal, tackler, tailers, talkers, talkier, tallier, tangler, tartlet, tattler, tearful, tearily, tegular, teleran, templar, tertial, thalers, thermal, torulae, trachle, trailed, trailer, tramell, tramels, trammel, trample, travels, trawled, trawler, trawley, treacle, treacly, treadle, trehala, trenail, triable, tutelar, unclear, unlearn, unravel, uralite, uredial, valeric, valuers, variole, varlets, vaulter, vealers, vealier, velaria, ventral, venular, verbals, verglas, vestral, virelai, virelay, vorlage, wabbler, waddler, waffler, wailers, walkers, waltzer, wangler, warbled, warbler, warbles, warless, warlike, warsled, warsler, warsles, warstle, wastrel, wearily, welfare, whalers, wirable, wrangle, wrassle, wrastle.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.