scale: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 7 letter points · starts with S · ends with E
Meaning of scale
noun
An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
Example: Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.
Size; scope.
Example: There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.
The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
Example: This map uses a scale of 1:10.
A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
Listed forms: scales.
Source: Wiktionary — scale.
verb
- transitive
To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
Example: We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
- transitive
To climb to the top of.
Example: Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
- intransitive
To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
Example: That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
To handle heavily increasing loads without breaking down.
Listed forms: scales, scaling, scaled.
Source: Wiktionary — scale.
noun
- countable, uncountable
Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
- countable, uncountable
A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- countable, uncountable
A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- countable, uncountable
Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
Listed forms: scales.
Source: Wiktionary — scale.
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 scale.
noun
an ordered reference standard
- scale of measurement
- graduated table
- ordered series
noun
a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
- scale leaf
noun
a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
noun
(music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
- musical scale
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is scale in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of scale
S(1) + C(3) + A(1) + L(1) + E(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 scale
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from scale
21 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in scale. Showing up to 24, longest first.