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Yes. The word braise is a Scrabble US word. The word braise is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (3 found)

BRAISE,ERBIAS,RABIES,

5-letter words (24 found)

ABERS,ABIES,ABRIS,AESIR,ARISE,BARES,BASER,BEARS,BIERS,BIRSE,BRAES,BREIS,BRIES,BRISE,ERBIA,RABIS,RAISE,REAIS,RIBAS,RIBES,SABER,SABIR,SABRE,SERAI,

4-letter words (40 found)

ABER,ABRI,AIRS,ARBS,ARES,ARIS,ARSE,BAES,BARE,BARS,BASE,BEAR,BIAS,BIER,BISE,BRAE,BRAS,BREI,BRIE,BRIS,EARS,ERAS,IRES,ISBA,RABI,RAIS,RASE,REBS,REIS,RIAS,RIBA,RIBS,RISE,SABE,SAIR,SARI,SEAR,SEIR,SERA,SIRE,

3-letter words (34 found)

ABS,AIR,AIS,ARB,ARE,ARS,BAE,BAR,BAS,BES,BIS,BRA,EAR,EAS,ERA,ERS,IRE,RAI,RAS,REB,REI,RES,RIA,RIB,SAB,SAE,SAI,SAR,SEA,SEI,SER,SIB,SIR,SRI,

2-letter words (14 found)

AB,AE,AI,AR,AS,BA,BE,BI,EA,ER,ES,IS,RE,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 116 words from braise according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of braise

braise

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɹeɪz/
  • Rhymes: -eɪz
  • Homophones: brays, braize

Etymology 1

From French braise (“live coals”) and braiser (“to braise”, from the noun), from Old French brese (“embers”), from Old Low Franconian/Old Dutch; akin to Norwegian/Swedish braseld (“sparkling fire”), Norwegian/Swedish dialectal brasa (“to roast”), Danish dialectal brase (“to flambé, enflame”). Perhaps from Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌰𐍃𐌰 (*brasa, “glowing coal”), from Proto-Germanic *brasō (“gleed, crackling coal”), Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to crack, break, burst”). Cognate with Icelandic brasa (“to harden by fire”). See burst.

Alternative forms

  • braize (dated)

Noun

braise (plural braises)

  1. Alternative spelling of braze
  2. A dish (usually meat) prepared by braising.
  3. A sauce used for braising.

Verb

braise (third-person singular simple present braises, present participle braising, simple past and past participle braised)

  1. (cooking) To cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan, somewhere between steaming and boiling.
  2. Alternative spelling of braze (joining non-ferrous metal using a molten filler metal)
Translations

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

braise (plural braises)

  1. Pagellus bogaraveo, syn. Pagellus centrodontus (sea bream)
Synonyms
  • (Pagellus bogaraveo): becker

References

  • Pagellus centrodontus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Pagellus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • “braise”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “braise”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • Baiers, Serbia, braies, rabies, rebias

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French bresze, from Old French breze (“ember, burning coal, gleed”), perhaps from Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌰𐍃𐌰 (*brasa, “glowing coal”), from Proto-Germanic *brasō (“gleed, crackling coal”), Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to crack, break, burst”). Cognate with Swedish brasa (“to roast”), Icelandic brasa (“to harden by fire”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʁɛz/

Noun

braise f (plural braises)

  1. (singular or plural) embers
  2. (slang) cash, dough

Derived terms

  • chaud comme la braise

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • abries, baiser, braies

Irish

Etymology 1

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Noun

braise f (genitive singular braise)

  1. brashness, flippancy
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

braise

  1. inflection of bras (“great, strong; swift”):
    1. genitive singular feminine
    2. comparative degree

Mutation

Further reading

  • Entries containing “braise” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

References

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “braise”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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