befile

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points: 11
Words With Friends: 13
Letters: 6

Definition of befile

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

(dialectal, obsolete, transitive)To make filthy; befoul; soil.

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Etymology

From Middle English befilen, from Old English befȳlan (“to befoul, defile, make dirty”), from Proto-West Germanic *bifūlijan (“to make foul”), equivalent to be- + file. Cognate with Scots befile (“to befile”), West Frisian befûlje (“to dirty”), Dutch bevuilen (“to soil, dirty”), German Low German befulen (“to soil, pollute”). See also defile.