all: meaning and words from its letters
3 letters · 3 letter points · starts with A · ends with L
Meaning of all
det
Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).
Example: All contestants must register for the footrace: we've arranged numbers for them all.
Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
Example: The store is open all day and all night.
Only; alone; nothing but.
Example: He's all talk; he never puts his ideas into practice.
- obsolete
Any.
Listed forms: al.
Source: Wiktionary — all.
pron
Everything.
Example: Some gave all they had.
Everyone.
Example: A good time was had by all (of you/us/them).
The only thing(s).
Example: All that was left was a small pile of ash.
- India, Northern-Ireland, Scotland, Southern-US
Used after who, what, where, how and similar words, either without changing their meaning, or indicating that one expects that they cover more than one element, e.g. that "Who all attended?" is more than one person. (Some dialects only allow this to follow some words and not others.)
Listed forms: al.
Source: Wiktionary — all.
adv
- childish, emphatic, intensifier, not-comparable, sometimes
Wholly; entirely; completely; totally.
Example: She was sitting all alone. It suddenly went all quiet. I'm all done, Mommy! I did it all by myself.
- not-comparable
Apiece; each.
Example: The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
- not-comparable
So much; used with "the" and a comparative.
Example: Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
- not-comparable
A quotative particle, compare like.
Example: She was all, “Whatever.”
Listed forms: al.
Source: Wiktionary — all.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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adverb
to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is all in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of all
A(1) + L(1) + L(1) = 3 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of all
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from all
2 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in all. Showing up to 24, longest first.