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Is excise a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word excise is a Scrabble US word. The word excise is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

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Is excise a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word excise is a Scrabble UK word and has 15 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

EXCISE,

5-letter words (2 found)

EXECS,EXIES,

4-letter words (5 found)

CEES,EXEC,EXES,ICES,SICE,

3-letter words (10 found)

CEE,CIS,ICE,SEC,SEE,SEI,SEX,SIC,SIX,XIS,

2-letter words (6 found)

EE,ES,EX,IS,SI,XI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 25 words from excise according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of excise

excise

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad + census (“tax, census”).

Alternative forms

  • excize (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/
  • Rhymes: -aɪz

Noun

excise (countable and uncountable, plural excises)

  1. A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
    • 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
      Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
    • 1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, "excise",
      A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid.
    • 1787, Constitution of the United States of America, Article I, Section 8,
      The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts […] of the United States;
Synonyms
  • excise tax
Derived terms
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Verb

excise (third-person singular simple present excises, present participle excising, simple past and past participle excised)

  1. To impose an excise tax on something.

Etymology 2

From French exciser, from Latin excisus, past participle of excīdō (“cut out”), from ex (“out of, from”) + caedō (“cut”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/, /əkˈsaɪz/
  • (US) IPA(key): /əkˈsaɪz/

Verb

excise (third-person singular simple present excises, present participle excising, simple past and past participle excised)

  1. To cut out; to remove.
    • 1901, Andrew Lang, Preface to the second edition of Myth, Ritual, and Religion,
      In revising the book I […] have excised certain passages which, as the book first appeared, were inconsistent with its main thesis.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • excision
Translations

French

Verb

excise

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

Latin

Participle

excīse

  1. vocative masculine singular of excīsus

Source: wiktionary.org