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Yes. The word confessor is a Scrabble US word. The word confessor is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word confessor is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

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9-letter words (1 found)

CONFESSOR,

7-letter words (11 found)

CENSORS,CEROONS,CONFERS,CONFESS,COOSENS,COOSERS,FRESCOS,NOOSERS,ROSCOES,SEROONS,SOONERS,

6-letter words (35 found)

CENSOR,CEROON,CONFER,COOERS,COOSEN,COOSER,CORSES,CORSOS,CRONES,CROONS,CROSSE,FORCES,FOSSOR,FREONS,FRESCO,NOOSER,NOOSES,NOSERS,ONCERS,RECONS,RONEOS,ROOSES,ROSCOE,SCONES,SCORES,SCORNS,SCORSE,SENORS,SENSOR,SERONS,SEROON,SNOOSE,SNORES,SONCES,SOONER,

5-letter words (54 found)

CEROS,CONES,CONFS,COOER,COOFS,COONS,CORES,CORNO,CORNS,CORSE,CORSO,COSES,CRESS,CRONE,CRONS,CROON,CROSS,FERNS,FONES,FORCE,FORES,FOSSE,FREON,FROES,FRONS,NOOSE,NOSER,NOSES,ONCER,ONCES,ONERS,OOSES,ORFES,RECON,RENOS,RONEO,RONES,ROOFS,ROONS,ROOSE,ROSES,SCONE,SCORE,SCORN,SENOR,SERFS,SERON,SNORE,SOCES,SONCE,SONES,SONSE,SORES,SORNS,

4-letter words (71 found)

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3-letter words (51 found)

CON,COO,COR,COS,ECO,EFS,ENS,EON,ERF,ERN,ERS,ESS,FEN,FER,FES,FOE,FON,FOO,FOR,FRO,NEF,NOO,NOR,NOS,OES,ONE,ONO,ONS,OOF,OON,OOR,OOS,ORC,ORE,ORF,ORS,OSE,REC,REF,REN,REO,RES,ROC,ROE,ROO,SEC,SEN,SER,SOC,SON,SOS,

2-letter words (15 found)

EF,EN,ER,ES,FE,NE,NO,OE,OF,ON,OO,OR,OS,RE,SO,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 239 words from confessor according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of confessor

confessor

Alternative forms

  • confessour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English confessor, confessour, from Anglo-Norman confessour, and its source, Latin cōnfessor, from cōnfiteor (“confess, admit, acknowledge”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈfɛsə/, /ˈkɒnfɛs(ɔ)ə/, /ˈkɒnfɛsɔː/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /kənˈfɛsɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛsə(ɹ)

Noun

confessor (plural confessors, feminine confessoress)

  1. One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
  2. One who confesses to having done something wrong.
  3. (Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution

Derived terms

Translations

References

Beccari, C. (1908) The Catholic Encyclopedia‎[1], New York: Robert Appleton Company, retrieved May 24, 2009, Confessor

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnfessōrem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [kuɱ.fəˈso]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [koɱ.fəˈso]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [koɱ.feˈsoɾ]

Noun

confessor m (plural confessors, feminine confessora)

  1. (Christianity) confessor of the faith
  2. confessor (priest who hears confessions)
    Synonym: confés

Related terms

  • confessar

Further reading

  • “confessor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈfes.sor/, [kõːˈfɛs̠ːɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈfes.sor/, [koɱˈfɛsːor]

Noun

cōnfessor m (genitive cōnfessōris); third declension

  1. confessor of the Christian faith
  2. martyr

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Catalan: confessor
  • English: confessor
  • French: confesseur
  • Italian: confessore
  • Portuguese: confessor
  • Spanish: confesor

References

  • “confessor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • confessor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnfessōrem.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: con‧fes‧sor

Noun

confessor m (plural confessores, feminine confessora, feminine plural confessoras)

  1. (religion) confessor (one who confesses faith in a religion, especially Christianity)
  2. (Roman Catholicism) confessor (priest who hears confession)

Spanish

Noun

confessor m (plural confessores)

  1. Obsolete spelling of confesor

Source: wiktionary.org