Definitions for Braille

Braille Braille

Spelling: [breyl]
IPA: /breɪl/

Braille is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in Braille (abeillr).

Definitions for Braille

noun

  1. Louis [loo-is,, loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu ɪs,, ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1809–52, French teacher of the blind.
  2. a system of writing or printing, devised by L. Braille for use by the blind, in which combinations of tangible dots or points are used to represent letters, characters, etc., that are read by touch.

verb (used with object)

  1. to write or transliterate in Braille characters.

Origin of Braille

First recorded in 1850-55

Examples for Braille

Braille and typewriting were taken up as a matter of course.

If our interview were in person, she would ask me to type out questions on a Braille display.

This refers again to the printing of some of his books in Braille type for the blind.

The fingers of the blind spelled out its optimism and its selections at Hawthorne in Braille.

After the reading of Braille has been mastered, writing it, an even more difficult operation, is taken up.

Kandynce went to Braille school so she could keep up her passion for reading, history in particular.

He could write Braille, with a punch and a Braille slate,--yes, indeed!

He learned me the deaf alphabet, and how to read in the Braille book, and it's not so bad now.

According to the American Foundation for the Blind, Dufau eventually relented and the Braille code spread throughout the world.

For a while, indeed, I had to copy my Latin in Braille, so that I could recite with the other girls.

Word Value for Braille
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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