Definitions for Wiles

Wiles wile

Spelling: [wahyl]
IPA: /waɪl/

Wiles is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in Wiles (eilsw).

Definitions for Wiles

noun

  1. a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
  2. wiles, artful or beguiling behavior.
  3. deceitful cunning; trickery.

Verb phrases

  1. wile away, to spend or pass (time), especially in a leisurely or pleasurable fashion:

verb (used with object)

  1. to beguile, entice, or lure (usually followed by away, from, into, etc.):

Origin of Wiles

1125-75; (noun) Middle English; late Old English wil, perhaps Old Norse vēl artifice, earlier *wihl-

Examples for Wiles

For wiles, appearing in Web series has been an enriching experience.

But for her and her wiles I had never been married to your father!

Who ever equalled us in all the wiles and schemes of mankind?

The neocons and their allies have lost their administration but not their agenda or their wiles.

Eventually though, wiles was suspended for "conduct unbecoming to a Promoter of the Miss Gay America pageant system."

wiles initially denied that he had performed as Mona Sinclair to the Winston-Salem Journal before eventually coming clean.

She has wiles and ways which, with her beauty, make her nigh irresistible.'

But with the captain her wiles were not so readily successful.

In the race to snatch children from the tightening noose around the Warsaw ghetto, she must use all her wiles.

Al. “Hud a phyd,” “The valour of the forward Elphin had recourse to wiles and stratagems.”

Word Value for Wiles
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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