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

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

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7-letter words (1 found)

FROUNCE,

6-letter words (4 found)

CONFER,CONURE,ROUNCE,UNCOER,

5-letter words (11 found)

CORNU,COURE,CRONE,FORCE,FOUER,FREON,FUERO,ONCER,OUNCE,RECON,ROUEN,

4-letter words (31 found)

CERO,CONE,CONF,CORE,CORF,CORN,COUR,CRON,CRUE,CURE,CURF,CURN,ECRU,ENUF,EURO,FERN,FOEN,FONE,FORE,FOUR,FROE,ONCE,ONER,ORFE,OURN,RENO,RONE,ROUE,RUNE,UNCE,UNCO,

3-letter words (40 found)

CON,COR,CRU,CUE,CUR,ECO,ECU,EON,ERF,ERN,FEN,FER,FEU,FOE,FON,FOR,FOU,FRO,FUN,FUR,NEF,NOR,NUR,ONE,ORC,ORE,ORF,OUR,REC,REF,REN,REO,ROC,ROE,RUC,RUE,RUN,UFO,URE,URN,

2-letter words (16 found)

EF,EN,ER,FE,FU,NE,NO,NU,OE,OF,ON,OR,OU,RE,UN,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 104 words from frounce according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of frounce

frounce

Etymology

From Middle English frouncen, from Old French froncir "to wrinkle, frown", from Frankish *hrunkiju (“a wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Akin to Old High German runza "fold, wrinkle, crease" (German Runzel "wrinkle"), Middle Dutch ronse "frown", Old Norse hrukka "wrinkle, crease" (Icelandic hrukka "wrinkle, crease, ruck"). More at ruck2.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɹaʊns/
  • Rhymes: -aʊns

Noun

frounce (plural frounces)

  1. A canker in the mouth of a hawk.
  2. A plait or curl.

Translations

Verb

frounce (third-person singular simple present frounces, present participle frouncing, simple past and past participle frounced)

  1. (rare, transitive, intransitive) To curl.
    • 1879, Harmon Seeley Babcock, "The Peanut Man", in Trifles, Providence Press Company (1879), page 43:
      Beard untrimmed by barber's shears,
      Hair all frouncing 'bout his ears,
  2. (rare) To crease, wrinkle, to frown.
    • 1871, George Mac-Henry, Time and Eternity: A Poem, A L Bancroft and Company (1871), page 42:
      He frounced his brow, and from his scornful eye
      Shot wrath indignant, and disdain and pride,
    • 2000, Patrick Madden, "Down on Batlle's Farm", Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume 33, Number 2, Summer 2000, page 160:
      "But they know who you are?" I asked, and frounced my brow in skeptical doubt.
  3. To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress.

Translations

Anagrams

  • unforce

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • ffrownce, fronce, frownce

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French fronce, from Old French fronce, from Frankish *hrunkiju (“a wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfruːns(ə)/

Noun

frounce (plural frounces)

  1. A wrinkle, fold, or pleat (in fabric, hair, or porcelain).
  2. A disease involving mouth sores in birds of prey.
  3. (figuratively) A grimace; a scornful look.

Derived terms

  • frounceles

Related terms

  • frouncen

Descendants

  • English: frounce

References

  • “frǒunce, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  • “frǒunce, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Source: wiktionary.org