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What does duress mean? Is duress a Scrabble word?

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Is duress a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word duress is a Scrabble US word. The word duress is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

D2U1R1E1S1S1

Is duress a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word duress is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

D2U1R1E1S1S1

Is duress a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word duress is a Words With Friends word. The word duress is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

D2U2R1E1S1S1

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6-letter words (3 found)

DRUSES,DURESS,SUDSER,

5-letter words (13 found)

DRESS,DRUSE,DURES,RESUS,RUDES,RUSES,RUSSE,SUERS,SURDS,SURED,SURES,SUSED,USERS,

4-letter words (22 found)

DEUS,DUES,DURE,REDS,RUDE,RUDS,RUED,RUES,RUSE,SERS,SUDS,SUED,SUER,SUES,SURD,SURE,URDE,URDS,URES,USED,USER,USES,

3-letter words (18 found)

DUE,EDS,ERS,ESS,RED,RES,RUD,RUE,SED,SER,SUD,SUE,SUR,SUS,UDS,URD,URE,USE,

2-letter words (7 found)

DE,ED,ER,ES,RE,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 64 words from duress according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of duress

duress

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French duresse, from Latin duritia (“hardness”), from durus (“hard”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /djʊˈɹɛs/, /d͡ʒʊˈɹɛs/
  • (US) IPA(key): /duˈɹɛs/
  • Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun

duress (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Harsh treatment.
  2. Constraint by threat.
  3. (law) Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.

Derived terms

  • duress of circumstances

Related terms

  • endure

Translations

Verb

duress (third-person singular simple present duresses, present participle duressing, simple past and past participle duressed)

  1. To put under duress; to pressure.

Derived terms

  • duressor

Anagrams

  • Druses, Suders, druses, sudser

Source: wiktionary.org