travel: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 9 letter points · starts with T · ends with L
Meaning of travel
verb
- intransitive
To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
Example: John seems to spend as much time travelling as he does in the office.
- intransitive
To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.
Example: Soundwaves can travel through water.
- intransitive
To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
- transitive
To travel throughout (a place).
Example: I’ve travelled the world.
Listed forms: travels, traveling, travelling, traveled, travelled, glossary.
Source: Wiktionary — travel.
noun
- countable, uncountable
The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
Example: I like travel, but it’s always too tiring.
- countable, in-plural, uncountable
A series of journeys.
Example: I’m off on my travels around France again.
- countable, in-plural, uncountable
An account of one's travels.
Example: He released his travels in 1900, two years after returning from Africa.
- countable, uncountable
The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
Listed forms: travels, travail, travell.
Source: Wiktionary — travel.
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 travel.
noun
the act of going from one place to another
noun
a movement through space that changes the location of something
- change of location
noun
self-propelled movement
verb
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is travel in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of travel
T(1) + R(1) + A(1) + V(4) + E(1) + L(1) = 9 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 travel
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from travel
65 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in travel. Showing up to 24, longest first.