Pearl

/pɜːl/

Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Scrabble:7 ptsWWF:9 pts5 letters

Definition of Pearl

noun

A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.
Something precious.
A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application.
Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
A whitish speck or film on the eye.

verb

(sometimes figurative) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.
To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains.
"to pearl barley"
To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence.
To resemble pearl or pearls.
To hunt for pearls
"to go pearling"

Anagrams of Pearl

Exact Anagrams

2 words using all 5 letters:

Words You Can Make

30 words can be made from the letters in "pearl":

5-LETTER WORDS

4-LETTER WORDS

aper earl leap lear pale pare peal pear plea rale rape real reap

3-LETTER WORDS

ale alp ape are ear era lap lar lea pal par pea per rap rep

+1 Letter Anagrams

Words formed by adding one letter to "pearl" and rearranging:

+ccarpel parcel placer

+dparled pedlar

+eleaper repeal

+mampler palmer

+nplaner replan

+plapper rappel

Related Word Patterns

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Rhyming Words

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