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Yes. The word farce is a Scrabble US word. The word farce is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (2 found)

FACER,FARCE,

4-letter words (9 found)

ACER,ACRE,CAFE,CARE,FACE,FARE,FEAR,FRAE,RACE,

3-letter words (15 found)

ACE,ARC,ARE,ARF,CAF,CAR,EAR,ERA,ERF,FAE,FAR,FER,FRA,REC,REF,

2-letter words (8 found)

AE,AR,EA,EF,ER,FA,FE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 35 words from farce according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of farce

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Definitions and meaning of farce

farce

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɑːs/
  • (General American) enPR: färs, IPA(key): /fɑɹs/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)s

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French farce (“comic interlude in a mystery play”, literally “stuffing”). Doublet of farse.

Noun

farce (countable and uncountable, plural farces)

  1. (uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
  2. (countable) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
  3. (uncountable) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
  4. (uncountable) A ridiculous or empty show.
Hypernyms
  • comedy
Coordinate terms
  • tragedy
Derived terms
  • farcical
Translations
See also
  • travesty

Etymology 2

Verb from Middle English farcen, from Old French farsir, farcir, from Latin farciō (“to cram, stuff”). Doublet of farse.

Verb

farce (third-person singular simple present farces, present participle farcing, simple past and past participle farced)

  1. (transitive) To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
  2. (transitive, figurative) To fill full; to stuff.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To make fat.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To swell out; to render pompous.
  5. Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”)
Translations

Noun

farce

  1. (cooking) Forcemeat, stuffing.

Further reading

  • “farce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “farce”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “farce”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • Facer, facer

Czech

Noun

farce

  1. dative/locative singular of farka

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French farse, from Medieval Latin farsa, feminine perfect passive participle from farcīre, from farciō (“to stuff”). The theatre sense alludes to the pleasant and varied character of certain stuffed food items.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faʁs/

Noun

farce f (plural farces)

  1. (cooking) stuffing
  2. (theater) farce
  3. prank, joke

Derived terms

Related terms

  • farcir

Descendants

References

Further reading

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

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fáɽ.t͡ʃèː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ɸáɽ.t͡ʃèː]

Noun

farcḕ m (plural farā̀tā, possessed form farcèn)

  1. fingernail
    Synonym: ƙumba

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfar.t͡ʃe/
  • Rhymes: -artʃe
  • Hyphenation: fàr‧ce

Noun

farce f

  1. plural of farcia

Anagrams

  • cafre

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

farce f (plural farces)

  1. (Jersey) batter

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