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Is eclipse a Scrabble word?

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

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Is eclipse a Scrabble UK word?

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

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7-letter words (1 found)

ECLIPSE,

6-letter words (7 found)

CLEEPS,CLEPES,CLIPES,PIECES,SIECLE,SPECIE,SPLICE,

5-letter words (28 found)

CEILS,CEPES,CIELS,CLEEP,CLEPE,CLIES,CLIPE,CLIPS,EISEL,EPICS,ESILE,LEEPS,LIPES,PEELS,PEISE,PELES,PIECE,PILES,PLIES,SEPIC,SLEEP,SLICE,SLIPE,SPEEL,SPEIL,SPICE,SPIEL,SPILE,

4-letter words (44 found)

CEES,CEIL,CELS,CEPE,CEPS,CIEL,CLIP,EELS,ELSE,EPIC,ICES,ISLE,LEEP,LEES,LEIS,LEPS,LICE,LIES,LIPE,LIPS,LISP,PECS,PEEL,PEES,PELE,PELS,PICE,PICS,PIES,PILE,PISE,PLIE,SEEL,SEEP,SEIL,SELE,SICE,SILE,SIPE,SLEE,SLIP,SPEC,SPIC,SPIE,

3-letter words (28 found)

CEE,CEL,CEP,CIS,EEL,ELS,ICE,LEE,LEI,LEP,LES,LIE,LIP,LIS,PEC,PEE,PEL,PES,PIC,PIE,PIS,PSI,SEC,SEE,SEI,SEL,SIC,SIP,

2-letter words (8 found)

EE,EL,ES,IS,LI,PE,PI,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 117 words from eclipse according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of eclipse

eclipse

Etymology

From Old French eclipse, from Latin eclīpsis, from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “eclipse”), from ἐκλείπω (ekleípō, “I abandon, go missing, vanish”), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and λείπω (leípō, “I leave behind”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪˈklɪps/, /iˈklɪps/
  • Rhymes: -ɪps
  • Hyphenation: eclipse

Noun

eclipse (countable and uncountable, plural eclipses)

  1. (astronomy) An alignment of astronomical objects whereby one object comes between the observer (or notional observer) and another object, thus obscuring the latter.
  2. Especially, an alignment whereby a planetary object (for example, the Moon) comes between the Sun and another planetary object (for example, the Earth), resulting in a shadow being cast by the middle planetary object onto the other planetary object.
  3. (ornithology) A seasonal state of plumage in some birds, notably ducks, adopted temporarily after the breeding season and characterised by a dull and scruffy appearance.
  4. Obscurity, decline, downfall.
    • a. 1618, Walter Raleigh, quoted in Eclipse, entry in 1805, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, Volume 2, unnumbered page,
      All the posterity of our first parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

  • 🝵 (solar eclipse symbol), 🝶 (lunar eclipse symbol)
  • occultation
  • syzygy

Further reading

  • eclipse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

eclipse (third-person singular simple present eclipses, present participle eclipsing, simple past and past participle eclipsed)

  1. (transitive) Of astronomical or atmospheric bodies, to cause an eclipse.
  2. (transitive, figurative) To overshadow; to be better or more noticeable than.
    Synonym: upstage
  3. (Irish grammar) To undergo eclipsis.

Translations

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin eclīpsis.

Noun

eclipse m (plural eclipses)

  1. eclipse

Galician

Etymology

From Latin eclīpsis.

Noun

eclipse f (plural eclipses)

  1. eclipse

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /eˈkliːp.se/, [ɛˈklʲiːps̠ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈklip.se/, [eˈklipse]

Noun

eclīpse

  1. ablative singular of eclīpsis

Old French

Alternative forms

  • esclipse

Noun

eclipse oblique singular, m (oblique plural eclipses, nominative singular eclipses, nominative plural eclipse)

  1. eclipse

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (eclipse)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: e‧clip‧se

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin eclīpsis, from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “eclipse”).

Noun

eclipse m (plural eclipses)

  1. eclipse
Related terms
  • eclipsar
  • eclíptico

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

eclipse

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

Further reading

  • “eclipse” in iDicionário Aulete.
  • “eclipse” in Dicionário inFormal.
  • “eclipse” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  • “eclipse” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
  • “eclipse” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eˈklibse/ [eˈkliβ̞.se]
  • Rhymes: -ibse
  • Syllabification: e‧clip‧se

Etymology 1

From Latin eclīpsis.

Noun

eclipse m (plural eclipses)

  1. eclipse
  2. disappearance
Alternative forms
  • eclipsi (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

eclipse

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

Further reading

  • “eclipse”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org