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Is faience a Scrabble word?

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

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Is faience a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is faience a Words With Friends word?

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

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7-letter words (2 found)

FAIENCE,FIANCEE,

6-letter words (2 found)

ENFACE,FIANCE,

5-letter words (7 found)

AINEE,ENIAC,FAINE,FENCE,FINCA,NEAFE,NIECE,

4-letter words (21 found)

ACNE,AINE,ANCE,CAFE,CAIN,CANE,CINE,EINA,EINE,FACE,FAIN,FANE,FEEN,FENI,FICE,FINE,NAIF,NEIF,NICE,NIEF,NIFE,

3-letter words (21 found)

ACE,AIN,ANE,ANI,CAF,CAN,CEE,EAN,EEN,ENE,FAE,FAN,FEE,FEN,FIE,FIN,ICE,NAE,NEE,NEF,NIE,

2-letter words (13 found)

AE,AI,AN,EA,EE,EF,EN,FA,FE,IF,IN,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 67 words from faience according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of faience

faience

Alternative forms

  • faïence, fayence

Etymology

From French faïence, named after the city of Faenza, Italy, where it was made in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ.əns/
  • Rhymes: -aɪəns

Noun

faience (countable and uncountable, plural faiences)

  1. A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic, used domestically for tableware and in architecture as a decorative material.
    • 1907, Edwin Atlee Barber, Tin Enamelled Pottery Maiolica, Delft and other Stanniferous Faience, Doubleday, Page & Company New York, page #:6
      The word Majolica, or Maiolica […] was applied to all Stanniferous faience of Italy and Spain.
  2. (archaeology) Beads or small ornaments made from frit, from the eastern Mediterranean of the Bronze and Iron Ages.

Translations

See also

  • majolica

References

  • Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[1] (etymology)
  • “faience” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.

Further reading

  • faience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Glazed architectural terra-cotta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Egyptian faience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • fiancee, fiancée

Source: wiktionary.org