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Is expense a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word expense is a Scrabble US word. The word expense is worth 16 points in Scrabble:

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Is expense a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word expense is a Scrabble UK word and has 16 points:

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Is expense a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word expense is a Words With Friends word. The word expense is worth 18 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

EXPENSE,

6-letter words (1 found)

PENSEE,

5-letter words (5 found)

EPEES,NEEPS,NEESE,PEENS,PENES,

4-letter words (14 found)

ENES,EPEE,ESNE,EXES,NEEP,NEPS,PEEN,PEES,PENE,PENS,SEEN,SEEP,SENE,SNEE,

3-letter words (11 found)

EEN,ENE,ENS,NEE,NEP,PEE,PEN,PES,SEE,SEN,SEX,

2-letter words (6 found)

EE,EN,ES,EX,NE,PE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 39 words from expense according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of expense

expense

Alternative forms

  • expence (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English expense, from Anglo-Norman expense and Old French espense, from Late Latin expēnsa, from Latin expendō. See expend.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪkˈspɛns/
  • Rhymes: -ɛns
  • Hyphenation: ex‧pense

Noun

expense (countable and uncountable, plural expenses)

  1. A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
  2. The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.
  3. (obsolete) Loss.

Synonyms

  • (that which is expended): cost, charge, outlay, disbursement, expenditure, payment

Derived terms

Related terms

  • expend
  • expensive

Translations

Verb

expense (third-person singular simple present expenses, present participle expensing, simple past and past participle expensed)

  1. (transitive) To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.

Derived terms

  • expense magazine, (military): a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. - Henry Lee Scot Military Dictionary

Latin

Participle

expēnse

  1. vocative masculine singular of expēnsus

References

  • “expense”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • expense in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • expense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Source: wiktionary.org