allowable
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 9
Definition of allowable
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
- Appropriate; acceptable.
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adj
- Appropriate; acceptable.
- Intellectually admissible; valid; probable.
- Able to be added or deducted in consideration of something.
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Permissible; tolerable; legitimate.
“And first, although there were more things in nature then words which did expresse them, yet even in these mute and silent discourses, to expresse complexed significations, they took a liberty to compound and piece together creatures of allowable formes unto mixtures inexistent […]”
“New HISA regulations, implemented last month, include strict rules about withdrawal times and allowable medication levels on race day.”
- (obsolete)Praiseworthy.
noun
- A permitted amount or activity.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English allowable, alowable, a borrowing from Old French alouable (Modern French allouable), from allouer, equivalent to allow + -able.
Words you can make from allowable
88 playable · top: LOWBALL (12 pts)
Best play lowball 12 points7-letter words
2 words6-letter words
2 words5-letter words
6 words4-letter words
31 words- BAWL 9 pts
- BLAW 9 pts
- BLEW 9 pts
- BLOW 9 pts
- BOWL 9 pts
- ALOW 7 pts
- AWOL 7 pts
- LOWE 7 pts
- WALE 7 pts
- WALL 7 pts
- WEAL 7 pts
- WELL 7 pts
- ABLE 6 pts
- ALBA 6 pts
- BAAL 6 pts
- BALE 6 pts
- BALL 6 pts
- BEAL 6 pts
- BELL 6 pts
- BLAE 6 pts
- BOLA 6 pts
- BOLE 6 pts
- BOLL 6 pts
- LOBE 6 pts
- ALAE 4 pts
- ALOE 4 pts
- LALL 4 pts
- LEAL 4 pts
- LOLL 4 pts
- OLEA 4 pts
- OLLA 4 pts
3-letter words
30 words2-letter words
16 wordsHooks
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