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Is ambage a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word ambage is a Scrabble US word. The word ambage is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is ambage a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word ambage is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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Yes. The word ambage is a Words With Friends word. The word ambage is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

AMBAGE,

5-letter words (4 found)

ABEAM,AMEBA,GAMBA,GAMBE,

4-letter words (10 found)

AGMA,BEAM,BEMA,EGMA,GAMA,GAMB,GAME,MABE,MAGE,MEGA,

3-letter words (18 found)

ABA,AGA,AGE,AMA,AME,BAA,BAE,BAG,BAM,BEG,GAB,GAE,GAM,GEM,MAA,MAE,MAG,MEG,

2-letter words (11 found)

AA,AB,AE,AG,AM,BA,BE,EA,EM,MA,ME,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 45 words from ambage according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ambage

ambage

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English ambages, from French ambage as well as its etymon Latin ambāgēs (“a roundabout or circuitous path”).

Noun

ambage (countable and uncountable, plural ambages)

  1. (literary, often in the plural) Evasive or ambiguous language; circumlocution.
    • Puttenham, Art of Poesie
      without any long studie or tedious ambage
  2. (literary, often in the plural) An indirect or obscure path.

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ambāgēs.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑ̃.baʒ/

Noun

ambage m (plural ambages)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) ambage
    sans ambages ― straight from the shoulder, bluntly

Further reading

  • “ambage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ambāgēs.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /amˈba.d͡ʒe/
  • Rhymes: -adʒe
  • Hyphenation: am‧bà‧ge

Noun

ambage f (plural ambagi)

  1. (usually in the plural) ambage

Further reading

  • ambage in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Noun

ambāge

  1. ablative singular of ambāgēs

Source: wiktionary.org