isle
UK/aɪ̯l/
isle noun: an island, usually very small. Compare with islet. Also the obsolete spelling of aisle.
Noun
isle (plural isles)
Proper noun capitalized: Isle
Isle
- A minor city in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, United States.
- A commune near Limoges, Haute-Vienne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
- A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the River Parrett.
- A river in southwestern France, which flows into the Dordogne.
Also used as
isle is also the obsolete spelling of aisle.
Examples of isle in a sentence
- I usually stay away from the ice cream isle but bought this as a " treat" 🤢.
- Why has it taken all this while desceptring ‘this sceptred isle’?
- "From a country called Wales, part of the isle my master calls Gramarye.
Forms of isle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | isles |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | Ile |
Origin of isle
From Middle English ile, yle (with s added, similar to English island), borrowed from Old French ille, idle, isle, from Latin insula. Not related to island. Doublet of insula.
Words formed from isle
- Balearic Isles
- Black Isle
- Bradbury and the Isle
- British Isles
- Deer Isle
- enisle
- Fair Isle
- Grand Isle
- inisle
- isled
- isleless
- isleman
- Isle of Arran
- Isle of Britain
- Isle of Dogs
- Isle of Ely
- Isle of Grain
- Isle of Lewis
- Isle of Man
- Isle of Mull
- Mull
- Isle of Oxney
- Isle of Portland
- Isle of Purbeck
- Isle of Sheppey
- Isle of Skye
- Isle of Thanet
- Isle of Wight
- islesman
- isleward
- islomania
- Scilly Isles
- Isles of Scilly
- Small Isles
- St Patrick's Isle
- Summer Isles
- tree isle
- Ilminster
Phrases with isle
Words that rhyme with isle
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- gentile
- kyle
- reptile
- sile
- smile
- Lyle
- tile
- while
- beguile
- bile
- Nile
- spile
- argyll
- awhile
- enisle
- guile
- gyle
- I'll
- last mile
- nubile
- resile
- restyle
- rile
- senile
- stile
- vile
- autogynephile
- bewile
- chile
- chyle
- Cnile
- District of Argyle
- heil
- ile
- interfile
- Japanophile
- Kabyle
- kile
- like it's going out of style
- Persophile
- redial
- refile
- revile
- Styal
- thyle
- tickler file
- wile
- worthwhile
Questions about isle
- What does isle mean?
- Isle means an island, usually very small. Compare with islet.
- What part of speech is isle?
- Isle can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce isle?
- Isle is pronounced /aɪ̯l/ (UK).
- What is the plural of isle?
- The plural of isle is isles.
Words near isle in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: isle (page history and authors); Isle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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