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Yes. The word enclave is a Scrabble US word. The word enclave is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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7-letter words (2 found)

ENCLAVE,VALENCE,

6-letter words (5 found)

CLEAVE,ELANCE,ENCAVE,ENLACE,LEAVEN,

5-letter words (18 found)

ANCLE,ANELE,CALVE,CAVEL,CLAVE,CLEAN,CLEVE,ELVAN,ELVEN,LANCE,LEAVE,NAEVE,NAVEL,NEVEL,VEALE,VEENA,VENAE,VENAL,

4-letter words (28 found)

ACNE,ALEC,ALEE,ANCE,AVEL,CANE,CAVE,CLAN,EALE,EAVE,EEVN,ELAN,EVEN,LACE,LANE,LAVE,LEAN,LEVA,LEVE,NAVE,NEAL,NEVE,VALE,VANE,VEAL,VELA,VELE,VENA,

3-letter words (25 found)

ACE,ALE,ANE,AVE,CAL,CAN,CEE,CEL,EAN,EEL,EEN,ENE,EVE,LAC,LAV,LEA,LEE,LEV,NAE,NAV,NEE,VAC,VAE,VAN,VEE,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AL,AN,EA,EE,EL,EN,LA,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 89 words from enclave according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of enclave

enclave

Etymology

Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave (“enclave”), deverbal of enclaver (“to inclose”), from Old French enclaver (“to inclose, lock in”), from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre (“to lock in”), from in + Latin clavis (“key”) or clavus (“nail, bolt”). Compare inlock.

Pronunciation

  • ; IPA(key): /ˈɛnkleɪv/, /ˈɛŋkleɪv/, /ˈɒ̃kleɪv/
  • ; IPA(key): /ˈɑnkleɪv/, /ˈɛnkleɪv/, /ˈɑŋkleɪv/
  • Rhymes: -eɪv

Noun

enclave (plural enclaves)

  1. A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
    The republic of San Marino is an enclave of Italy.
    The streets around Union Square form a Protestant enclave within an otherwise Catholic neighbourhood.
  2. A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
  3. (computing) An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.

Usage notes

Enclaves are generally also exclaves, though exceptions exist (as detailed at list of enclaves and exclaves), and in common speech only the term enclave is used.

An enclave is an area surrounded by another area, while an exclave is an area cut off from the main area. An area can be cut off without being surrounded (such as Kaliningrad Oblast, cut off from the rest of Russia by Lithuania, Poland, and the Baltic Sea) hence exclaved without being enclaved, or surrounded without being cut off (such as the Kingdom of Lesotho, enclaved in South Africa, but not exclaved).

A pene-enclave (resp., pene-exclave) is an area that is an enclave "for practical purposes", but does not meet the strict definition. This is a very technical term.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • exclave
  • pene-enclave
  • pene-exclave

Verb

enclave (third-person singular simple present enclaves, present participle enclaving, simple past and past participle enclaved)

  1. (transitive) To enclose within a foreign territory.

References

  • (group set off from a larger population by a characteristic): Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life - Page 74

by Robert Neelly Bellah, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. Tipton, Richard Madsen - 1996

Anagrams

  • Valence, valence

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɑŋˈklaː.və/, /ˌɛŋˈklaː.və/
  • Hyphenation: en‧cla‧ve
  • Rhymes: -aːvə

Noun

enclave f (plural enclaves, diminutive enclaafje n or enclavetje n)

  1. enclave

Derived terms

  • enclavedorp
  • moslimenclave

French

Etymology

From enclaver.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑ̃.klav/

Noun

enclave f (plural enclaves)

  1. enclave
  2. (field hockey or ice hockey) the slot

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • valence, Valence

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /enˈkla.ve/, (traditional) /anˈklav/
  • Rhymes: -ave, (traditional) -av
  • Hyphenation: en‧clà‧ve

Noun

enclave f (plural enclavi) (Often invariant)

  1. enclave

References

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • encrave

Pronunciation

Noun

enclave m (plural enclaves)

  1. (geography) enclave (region completely surrounded by another)
  2. (geology) an intrusive rock

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /enˈklabe/ [ẽŋˈkla.β̞e]
  • Rhymes: -abe
  • Syllabification: en‧cla‧ve

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French enclave.

Noun

enclave m (plural enclaves)

  1. (politics) enclave

Etymology 2

Verb

enclave

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

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org