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el¹

  • /ˈɛl/
  • [ɛɫ]

Rhymes with -ɛl

Where it comes from

From Middle English, from Old English el, from Latin el (the name of the letter L).

noun els · L · ell

  1. The name of the Latin script letter L/l. The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.

el²

  • /ˈɛl/
  • [ɛɫ]

Rhymes with -ɛl

noun els · L

  1. US An elevated railway, especially for specific systems such as the metro in Chicago (informal) The main section of the Sixth Avenue El from Morris Street to Ninth Avenue and 53rd Street shut down on December 4, 1938.

el³

  • /ˈɛl/
  • [ɛɫ]

Rhymes with -ɛl

Where it comes from

Shortening of eleven.

number

  1. The cardinal number occurring after dek and before do in a duodecimal system. Written ↋, decimal value 11.

el⁴

  • /ˈɛl/
  • [ɛɫ]

Rhymes with -ɛl

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish el.

article

  1. Internet, humorous, informal The (sometimes where "the" would not occur in normal English). "[…] A sister of Joseph Gerard […] was found unconscious on the kitchen floor by the family cook early this morning. […]" […] What leads could they have, if the old lady was el zonko?

el⁵

  • /ˈɛl/
  • [ɛɫ]

Rhymes with -ɛl

noun els

  1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter Л / л

El⁶

  • /ɛl/
  • [ɛɫ]

Rhymes with -ɛl

Where it comes from

From Biblical Hebrew אֵל (ʾēl).

proper noun

  1. Any of several major ancient Near East deities, including the supreme god of the Canaanite religion, but especially the supreme Hebrew God. […]who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated,[…]

El⁷

  • /ɛl/
  • [ɛɫ]

Rhymes with -ɛl

Where it comes from

Clipping of elevated.

proper noun Els

  1. slang Any one of several specific elevated railways. The Washington Street El was torn down in 1987.

El⁸

  • /ɛl/
  • [ɛɫ]

Rhymes with -ɛl

proper noun

  1. A unisex given name, often used as a nickname. Ever since El Martinez started asking to be called by the gender-neutral pronouns “they/them” in the ninth grade, they have fielded skepticism in a variety of forms and from a multitude of sources about what it means to identify as nonbinary.

EL⁹

noun ELs

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of electroluminescence
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of encephalitis lethargica (von Economo disease, sleepy sickness).

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Expression Language

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: altitude, elevation, alt, elevated railway, elevated railroad, overhead railway, kab, sayed, beida, jebel, medina, amarna, pour, bravo, guatemala, jor

Translations

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noun name of the letter L, l

Españolele
한국어엘 el
日本語エル eru
हिन्दीएल el
Portuguêsele
Françaiselle
Italianoelle
Ελληνικάελ
Русскийэл el, эль elʹ
Tiếng Việte-lờ, lờ
العربيةإِل ʔel

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@misc{el_2026,
  title = {el},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/el},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}