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Yes. The word fesse is a Scrabble US word. The word fesse is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (1 found)

FESSE,

4-letter words (6 found)

ESES,ESSE,FEES,FESS,SEES,SESE,

3-letter words (5 found)

EFS,ESS,FEE,FES,SEE,

2-letter words (4 found)

EE,EF,ES,FE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 17 words from fesse according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of fesse

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Definitions and meaning of fesse

fesse

Noun

fesse (plural fesses)

  1. Alternative spelling of fess (“horizontal band in heraldry”)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French fesse, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *fissa (“split, cleft”), from Latin fissum, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidtós. Originally referred to the gluteal cleft. The verb fesser and its derivatives are etymologically unrelated and converged toward fesse in both form and sense through assimilation.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛs/
  • Homophones: Fès, fèces

Noun

fesse f (plural fesses)

  1. buttock

Derived terms

  • avoir le feu aux fesses
  • botter les fesses
  • chauffer les fesses
  • coller aux fesses
  • coûter la peau des fesses
  • de la fesse gauche
  • entrefesse
  • fessé, fessée, fesser, fessier, fesseur, fesseuse
  • le beurre, l’argent du beurre et les fesses de la crémière
  • ramener ses fesses
  • s’occuper de ses fesses

Verb

fesse

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

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfes.se/
  • Rhymes: -esse
  • Hyphenation: fés‧se

Participle

fesse f pl

  1. feminine plural of fesso (“split, having split”)

Adjective

fesse f

  1. feminine plural of fesso (“ruptured, cracked; wounded”)

Noun

fesse

  1. plural of fessa (“pussy; crack, chink”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfes.se/
  • Rhymes: -esse
  • Hyphenation: fés‧se

Noun

fesse

  1. plural of fessa (“female twit, female idiot”)

Adjective

fesse f

  1. feminine plural of fesso (“silly, idiotic”)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛs.se/
  • Rhymes: -ɛsse
  • Hyphenation: fès‧se

Adjective

fesse f

  1. feminine plural of fesso (“tired”)

Latin

Adjective

fesse

  1. vocative masculine singular of fessus

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *fissa, from Latin fissum.

Noun

fesse f (plural fesses)

  1. buttock

Source: wiktionary.org