How many points in Scrabble is dessert worth? dessert how many points in Words With Friends? What does dessert mean? Get all these answers on this page.
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Is dessert a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word dessert is a Scrabble US word. The word dessert is worth 8 points in Scrabble:
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Is dessert a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word dessert is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:
D2E1S1S1E1R1T1
Is dessert a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word dessert is a Words With Friends word. The word dessert is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
D2E1S1S1E1R1T1
You can make 108 words from dessert according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
Borrowed from Middle French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”), thus literally meaning “removal of what has been served”.
Note: It was erroneously suggested (e.g. in "Glucose syrups: Technology and Applications" (Peter Hull, 2010)) that the word is derived from the name of Benjamin Delessert, the inventor of beet sugar. However, the term predates him by at least a century.
dessert (countable and uncountable, plural desserts)
From French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”).
dessert c (singular definite desserten, plural indefinite desserter)
Borrowed from French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”), thus literally meaning “removal of what has been served”.
dessert n (plural desserten or desserts, diminutive dessertje n)
German Dessert.
dessert (genitive desserdi, partitive desserti)
Inherited from Middle French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) + servir (“serve”).
dessert m (plural desserts)
dessert
From French dessert.
dessert m (definite singular desserten, indefinite plural desserter, definite plural dessertene)
From French dessert.
dessert m (definite singular desserten, indefinite plural dessertar, definite plural dessertane)
dessert m (plural desserts)
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dessert n (plural desserts, diminutive dessertsje)