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Is confess a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word confess is a Scrabble US word. The word confess is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

C3O1N1F4E1S1S1

Is confess a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word confess is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

C3O1N1F4E1S1S1

Is confess a Words With Friends word?

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

C4O1N2F4E1S1S1

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7-letter words (1 found)

CONFESS,

6-letter words (2 found)

SCONES,SONCES,

5-letter words (12 found)

CONES,CONFS,COSES,FONES,FOSSE,NOSES,ONCES,SCONE,SOCES,SONCE,SONES,SONSE,

4-letter words (29 found)

CENS,CESS,CONE,CONF,CONS,COSE,COSS,ECOS,EONS,FENS,FESS,FOEN,FOES,FONE,FONS,FOSS,NEFS,NESS,NOES,NOSE,ONCE,ONES,OSES,SECO,SECS,SENS,SOCS,SONE,SONS,

3-letter words (22 found)

CON,COS,ECO,EFS,ENS,EON,ESS,FEN,FES,FOE,FON,NEF,NOS,OES,ONE,ONS,OSE,SEC,SEN,SOC,SON,SOS,

2-letter words (11 found)

EF,EN,ES,FE,NE,NO,OE,OF,ON,OS,SO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 78 words from confess according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of confess

confess

Etymology

From Middle English confessen, from Anglo-Norman confesser, from Old French confesser, from Latin confessus (Old French confés), past participle of cōnfiteor (“I confess, I admit”) from con- + fateor (“I admit”). Displaced Middle English andetten (“to confess, admit”) (from Old English andettan). Doublet of confiteor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kənˈfɛs/
  • Rhymes: -ɛs

Verb

confess (third-person singular simple present confesses, present participle confessing, simple past and past participle confessed)

  2. (intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
    I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!
    I confess that I am a sinner.
  3. (transitive) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
  4. (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
  5. (religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
    • 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles
      He […] heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed.
  7. (transitive) To disclose or reveal.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • confession
  • confessional
  • confessor

Translations

See also

  • own up
  • come clean

Source: wiktionary.org