Definition of CANAILLE

canaille

Plural: canailles

Noun

  • The common people; the rabble.
  • The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
  • Shorts or inferior flour.

Examples

  • Playing CANAILLE felt like elevating the common tiles into a high-scoring play.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French canaille.

Synonyms

canaille, commonality, commonalty, crowd, demos, everyone, general public, great unhosed, great unwashed, herd, hoi polloi, lower class, many, masses, mob, multitude, odds and sods, peasantry, plebs, populace, proletariat, rabble, rank and file, riffraff, third estate, trash, unwashed, unwashed masses, working class

Scrabble Score: 10

canaille: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
canaille: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
canaille: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

canaille: valid Words With Friends Word