bell (4 letters)
bell
6
- Length
- 4 letters
- Scrabble score
- 6 points
- Frequency
- Less common
- Pronunciation
- BEHL
What it means
- verb — attach a bell to
- noun — a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
- noun — a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
- noun — the sound of a bell being struck
- noun — (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- noun — the shape of a bell
- noun — a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
- noun — English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
- noun — United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
- noun — a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
- noun — the flared opening of a tubular device