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Yes. The word confiner is a Scrabble US word. The word confiner is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is confiner a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word confiner is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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8-letter words (1 found)

CONFINER,

7-letter words (5 found)

COINFER,CONFINE,CONIFER,INFERNO,INFORCE,

6-letter words (10 found)

COINER,CONFER,CONINE,CONNER,CONNIE,FINNER,ORCEIN,ORCINE,RECOIN,RONNIE,

5-letter words (20 found)

CONIN,CONNE,CORNI,CRINE,CRONE,FINER,FORCE,FREON,INFER,INNER,IRONE,NICER,NINER,NONCE,ONCER,ORCIN,RECON,RENIN,RONIN,RONNE,

4-letter words (59 found)

CERO,CINE,CION,CIRE,COIF,COIN,COIR,CONE,CONF,CONI,CONN,CORE,CORF,CORN,CRON,ERIC,FENI,FERN,FICE,FICO,FIER,FINE,FINO,FIRE,FIRN,FOCI,FOEN,FOIN,FONE,FORE,FROE,ICER,ICON,INFO,INRO,IRON,NEIF,NEON,NICE,NIEF,NIFE,NINE,NOIR,NONE,NONI,NORI,ONCE,ONER,ONIE,ORFE,REFI,REIF,REIN,RENO,RICE,RIFE,RINE,ROIN,RONE,

3-letter words (36 found)

CON,COR,ECO,EON,ERF,ERN,FEN,FER,FIE,FIN,FIR,FOE,FON,FOR,FRO,ICE,INN,ION,IRE,NEF,NIE,NON,NOR,ONE,ORC,ORE,ORF,REC,REF,REI,REN,REO,RIF,RIN,ROC,ROE,

2-letter words (15 found)

EF,EN,ER,FE,IF,IN,IO,NE,NO,OE,OF,OI,ON,OR,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 147 words from confiner according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of confiner

confiner

Etymology 1

confine (verb) +‎ -er

Noun

confiner (plural confiners)

  1. One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
    • 2016, “Last Chance for Animals’ Investigation Leads to Animal Cruelty Charges for Marineland Canada,” Press Release dated 4 December, 2016,[4]
      The undercover investigation exposed inadequate treatment, housing, and care of marine mammals at Marineland, the world’s largest confiner of beluga whales.

Etymology 2

confine (noun) +‎ -er

Noun

confiner (plural confiners) (obsolete)

  1. A person who lives on the confines, boundary or edge; a neighbour.
    • 1599, Samuel Daniel, The Civil Wars of England, Book 1, Stanza 18, in Poeticall Essayes, London: Simon Waterson, p. 4,[5]
      So did the worldes proud Mistres Rome at first
      Striue with a hard beginning, warr’d with need;
      Forcing her strong Confiners to the worst,
      And in her bloud her greatnes first did breed:
    • 1697, Thomas d’Urfey, The Intrigues of Versailles, London: F. Saunders et al., Act IV, Scene 2, p. ,[9]
      […] darkness is naturally a confiner of fancy; and my Muse has taught me just as people do Starlings: I sing always best when I’ve least light […]
  2. A person who lives within the confines; an inhabitant.
  3. A prisoner incarcerated for a set term.
    • 1819, Joseph John Gurney, Notes on a Visit Made to Some of the Prisons in Scotland and the North of England in Company with Elizabeth Fry, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, p. 64,[10]
      Lancaster Castle […] contains two classes of prisoners; first, the untried, and those sentenced to death or transportation; and secondly, confiners,—persons sent hither for terms of imprisonment and labour.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃.fi.ne/
  • Rhymes: -e

Verb

confiner

  1. to confine
  2. to border (on)

Conjugation

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org