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Is enhance a Scrabble word?

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

E1N1H4A1N1C3E1

Is enhance a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word enhance is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

E1N1H4A1N1C3E1

Is enhance a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word enhance is a Words With Friends word. The word enhance is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

E1N2H3A1N2C4E1

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7-letter words (1 found)

ENHANCE,

6-letter words (1 found)

ACHENE,

5-letter words (6 found)

CANEH,HANCE,HENCE,HENNA,NACHE,NANCE,

4-letter words (12 found)

ACHE,ACNE,ANCE,CANE,CANN,EACH,ECHE,EECH,HAEN,NACH,NANE,NENE,

3-letter words (19 found)

ACE,ACH,ANE,ANN,CAN,CEE,CHA,CHE,EAN,ECH,EEN,ENE,HAE,HAN,HEN,NAE,NAH,NAN,NEE,

2-letter words (12 found)

AE,AH,AN,CH,EA,EE,EH,EN,HA,HE,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 52 words from enhance according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of enhance

enhance

Alternative forms

  • inhance, enhaunce, inhaunce (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English enhauncen, anhaunsen, from Anglo-Norman anhauncer (“enhance, raise”), from Vulgar Latin *inaltiāre (“raise”), derived from Latin in + altus (“high”). The /h/ in Old French was taken from haut (“high”), where it resulted from Frankish influence.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈhɑːns/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈhæns/, /ɛnˈhæns/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːns, -æns

Verb

enhance (third-person singular simple present enhances, present participle enhancing, simple past and past participle enhanced)

  1. (obsolete) To lift, raise up.
  3. To augment or make something greater.
  4. To improve something by adding features.
  5. (intransitive) To be raised up; to grow larger.
    A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
  6. (radiology) To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).

Synonyms

  • heighten
  • See also Thesaurus:improve

Antonyms

  • dehance

Translations

Middle English

Verb

enhance

  1. Alternative form of enhauncen

Source: wiktionary.org