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Is flesh a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word flesh is a Scrabble US word. The word flesh is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word flesh is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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5-letter words (2 found)

FLESH,SHELF,

4-letter words (3 found)

ELFS,FEHS,SELF,

3-letter words (10 found)

EFS,EHS,ELF,ELS,FEH,FES,HES,LES,SEL,SHE,

2-letter words (7 found)

EF,EH,EL,ES,FE,HE,SH,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 23 words from flesh according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of flesh

flesh lfesh felsh eflsh lefsh elfsh flseh lfseh fsleh sfleh lsfeh slfeh feslh efslh fselh sfelh esflh seflh lesfh elsfh lsefh slefh eslfh selfh flehs lfehs felhs eflhs lefhs elfhs flhes lfhes fhles hfles lhfes hlfes fehls efhls fhels hfels ehfls hefls lehfs elhfs lhefs hlefs ehlfs helfs flshe lfshe fslhe sflhe lsfhe slfhe flhse lfhse fhlse hflse lhfse hlfse fshle sfhle fhsle hfsle shfle hsfle lshfe slhfe lhsfe hlsfe shlfe hslfe feshl efshl fsehl sfehl esfhl sefhl fehsl efhsl fhesl hfesl ehfsl hefsl fshel sfhel fhsel hfsel shfel hsfel eshfl sehfl ehsfl hesfl shefl hsefl leshf elshf lsehf slehf eslhf selhf lehsf elhsf lhesf hlesf ehlsf helsf lshef slhef lhsef hlsef shlef hslef eshlf sehlf ehslf heslf shelf hself

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Definitions and meaning of flesh

flesh

Etymology

From Middle English flesh, flesch, flæsch, from Old English flǣsċ, from Proto-West Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flɛʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛʃ

Noun

flesh (usually uncountable, plural fleshes)

  1. The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
    • 1918, Fannie Farmer, Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Chapter XVII: Poultry and Game:
      The flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.
  2. The skin of a human or animal.
  3. (by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
  4. Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
  5. The human body as a physical entity.
  6. (religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
    • 1929 January, Bassett Morgan (Grace Jones), Bimini, first published in Weird Tales, reprinted 1949, in Avon Fantasy Reader, Issue 10,
      But death had no gift for me, no power to free me from flesh.
  7. (religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
  8. The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
  9. (obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
  10. (obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.
  11. A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:body

Translations

Verb

flesh (third-person singular simple present fleshes, present participle fleshing, simple past and past participle fleshed)

  1. (transitive) To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.
  2. (transitive) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
  3. (obsolete) To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice. [16th–18th c.]
  4. (transitive) To glut.
  5. (transitive) To put flesh on; to fatten.
  6. To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.

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Derived terms

See also

  • carrion
  • incarnate
  • sarcoid
  • Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

  • Fehls, shelf

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • flech, fleesh, fleisch, fleische, fleish, flesch, flesche, fless, flessh
  • flæsc, flæsch, flæsh (Early Middle English)

Etymology

Inherited from Old English flǣsċ, from Proto-West Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flɛːʃ/, /flɛʃ/

Noun

flesh (uncountable)

  1. flesh (especially that of a mammal)
  2. (Christianity, theology) A communion wafer
  3. (anatomy) A muscle
  4. meat, flesh for consumption
  5. A human or being
  6. The body, physical existence, nature (especially that of a human)
  7. sexual intercourse, copulation

Usage notes

Much like with English fish, this word is a collective noun, but can be pluralised to refer to different meats.

Descendants

  • English: flesh
  • Scots: flesch
  • Yola: vleash, vlesh

References

  • “flē̆sh, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.

Source: wiktionary.org