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Yes. The word efface is a Scrabble US word. The word efface is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is efface a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word efface is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

EFFACE,

4-letter words (3 found)

CAFE,CAFF,FACE,

3-letter words (7 found)

ACE,AFF,CAF,CEE,EFF,FAE,FEE,

2-letter words (6 found)

AE,EA,EE,EF,FA,FE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 18 words from efface according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of efface

efface

Etymology

From Middle French effacer (“erase”), from Old French esfacier (“remove the face”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈfeɪs/, /ɪˈfeɪs/
  • Rhymes: -eɪs

Verb

efface (third-person singular simple present effaces, present participle effacing, simple past and past participle effaced)

  1. (transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
    • 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A.L. Burt Company (1832?), 15:
      An outline of the same device might be traced on his shield, though many a blow had almost effaced the painting.
  2. (transitive) To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out.
  3. (intransitive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
  4. (medicine, intransitive) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.

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See also

  • deface

Anagrams

  • Caffee

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /e.fas/

Noun

efface f (plural effaces)

  1. (Quebec) eraser
    Synonym: gomme

Verb

efface

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

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org