email: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 7 letter points · starts with E · ends with L
Meaning of email
noun
- uncountable
A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet Message Format.
Example: He sent me his details via email.
- uncountable
The quantity of messages sent through an email system.
Example: I am searching through my old email.
- countable
A message being sent through email.
Example: He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting.
- countable, informal
An email address.
Example: What’s your email?
Listed forms: emails.
Source: Wiktionary — email.
verb
- transitive
To send an email or emails to.
Example: She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.
- ditransitive, transitive
To send (data) through email.
Example: I’ll email you the link.
- intransitive
To send, or compose and then send, one or more emails.
Example: Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web.
Listed forms: emails, emailing, emailed.
Source: Wiktionary — email.
noun
- obsolete, rare
Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).
Listed forms: emails, emayle.
Source: Wiktionary — email.
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 email.
noun
(computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in
- electronic mail
noun
a message sent over the internet via the email system
- email message
- e-mail message
noun
an identifier that a person uses as their identity to communicate on the email system
- email address
- e-mail address
verb
communicate electronically on the computer
- netmail
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is email in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of email
E(1) + M(3) + A(1) + I(1) + L(1) = 7 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 email
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 email
34 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in email. Showing up to 24, longest first.