cell: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 6 letter points · starts with C · ends with L
Meaning of cell
noun
A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
Example: Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.
A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
Example: The combatants spent the night in separate cells.
Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
Listed forms: cells.
Source: Wiktionary — cell.
verb
- transitive
To place or enclose in a cell.
Listed forms: cells, celling, celled.
Source: Wiktionary — cell.
noun
- Australia, India, New-Zealand, Philippines, US, informal
A cellular phone.
Listed forms: cells.
Source: Wiktionary — cell.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for cell.
noun
a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
- electric cell
noun
a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
noun
a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
- cellular telephone
- cellular phone
- cellphone
- mobile phone
noun
small room in which a monk or nun lives
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is cell in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of cell
C(3) + E(1) + L(1) + L(1) = 6 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 cell
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 cell
2 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in cell. Showing up to 24, longest first.