mile: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 6 letter points · starts with M · ends with E
Meaning of mile
noun
The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
Example: Turn left in 1.2 miles.
Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
Listed forms: miles.
Source: Wiktionary — mile.
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 mile.
noun
a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
- statute mile
- stat mi
- land mile
- international mile
- mi
noun
a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
- nautical mile
- mi
- naut mi
- international nautical mile
- air mile
noun
a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)
- sea mile
noun
a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile
- nautical mile
- naut mi
- mi
- geographical mile
- Admiralty mile
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is mile in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of mile
M(3) + I(1) + L(1) + E(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 mile
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from mile
14 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in mile. Showing up to 24, longest first.