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Is dispense a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dispense is a Scrabble US word. The word dispense is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is dispense a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dispense is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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Is dispense a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word dispense is a Words With Friends word. The word dispense is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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8-letter words (2 found)

DISPENSE,PIEDNESS,

7-letter words (4 found)

DESINES,DESPISE,PEDESIS,PENISES,

6-letter words (28 found)

DENIES,DESINE,DIENES,DIESES,ESPIED,ESPIES,PEINED,PEISED,PEISES,PENIES,PIENDS,PISSED,SDEINS,SEINED,SEINES,SEISED,SENSED,SENSEI,SNIDES,SNIPED,SNIPES,SPEEDS,SPEISE,SPENDS,SPENSE,SPIDES,SPINED,SPINES,

5-letter words (60 found)

DEENS,DEEPS,DENES,DENIS,DENSE,DESIS,DESSE,DIENE,DINES,ESNES,IDEES,NEEDS,NEEPS,NIDES,NISSE,PEDES,PEDIS,PEENS,PEINS,PEISE,PENDS,PENED,PENES,PENIE,PENIS,PIEND,PINED,PINES,PISES,SDEIN,SEDES,SEEDS,SEEPS,SEINE,SEISE,SENDS,SENES,SENSE,SENSI,SIDES,SIENS,SINDS,SINED,SINES,SIPED,SIPES,SNEDS,SNEED,SNEES,SNIDE,SNIES,SNIPE,SNIPS,SPEED,SPEND,SPIDE,SPIED,SPIES,SPINE,SPINS,

4-letter words (73 found)

DEEN,DEEP,DEES,DENE,DENI,DENS,DEPS,DESI,DIES,DINE,DINS,DIPS,DISS,EIDE,EINE,ENDS,ENES,ESES,ESNE,ESSE,IDEE,IDES,NEDS,NEED,NEEP,NEPS,NESS,NIDE,NIDS,NIED,NIES,NIPS,PEDI,PEDS,PEED,PEEN,PEES,PEIN,PEND,PENE,PENI,PENS,PIED,PIES,PINE,PINS,PISE,PISS,PSIS,SEED,SEEN,SEEP,SEES,SEIS,SEND,SENE,SENS,SEPS,SESE,SIDE,SIEN,SIES,SIND,SINE,SINS,SIPE,SIPS,SNED,SNEE,SNIP,SPED,SPIE,SPIN,

3-letter words (39 found)

DEE,DEI,DEN,DEP,DIE,DIN,DIP,DIS,EDS,EEN,END,ENE,ENS,ESS,IDE,IDS,INS,NED,NEE,NEP,NID,NIE,NIP,NIS,PED,PEE,PEN,PES,PIE,PIN,PIS,PSI,SED,SEE,SEI,SEN,SIN,SIP,SIS,

2-letter words (13 found)

DE,DI,ED,EE,EN,ES,ID,IN,IS,NE,PE,PI,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 220 words from dispense according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of dispense

dispense

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispēnsāre (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˈspɛns/
  • Rhymes: -ɛns
  • Hyphenation: dis‧pense

Verb

dispense (third-person singular simple present dispenses, present participle dispensing, simple past and past participle dispensed)

  1. To issue, distribute, or give out.
  2. To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
    to dispense justice
  3. To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
    The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
    An optician can dispense spectacles.
  4. (obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
    • 1779–81, Samuel Johnson, "Richard Savage" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet
      He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.

Derived terms

  • dispensary
  • dispenser
  • dispense with

Translations

Noun

dispense (countable and uncountable, plural dispenses)

  1. (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
  2. (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.

Derived terms

  • dispensable
  • dispensation
  • dispensative
  • dispensatory

Translations

Related terms

  • dispend

Further reading

  • “dispense”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “dispense”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “dispense”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • despines, piedness

French

Etymology

Deverbal from dispenser.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

dispense f (plural dispenses)

  1. dispensation

Verb

dispense

  1. inflection of dispenser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • pendisse

Italian

Noun

dispense f

  1. plural of dispensa

Verb

dispense

  1. third-person singular past historic of dispegnere

Anagrams

  • pendessi

Portuguese

Verb

dispense

  1. inflection of dispensar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

dispense

  1. inflection of dispensar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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