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Is incense a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word incense is a Scrabble US word. The word incense is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is incense a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word incense is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

INCENSE,

6-letter words (1 found)

NIECES,

5-letter words (8 found)

CENSE,CINES,NENES,NIECE,NINES,SCENE,SEINE,SINCE,

4-letter words (18 found)

CEES,CENS,CINE,EINE,ENES,ESNE,ICES,INNS,NENE,NICE,NIES,NINE,SEEN,SENE,SICE,SIEN,SINE,SNEE,

3-letter words (17 found)

CEE,CIS,EEN,ENE,ENS,ICE,INN,INS,NEE,NIE,NIS,SEC,SEE,SEI,SEN,SIC,SIN,

2-letter words (7 found)

EE,EN,ES,IN,IS,NE,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 53 words from incense according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of incense

incense

Etymology

From Middle English encens, from Old French encens (“sweet-smelling substance”) from Late Latin incensum (“burnt incense”, literally “something burnt”), neuter past participle of incendō (“I set on fire”). Compare incendiary. Cognate with Spanish encender and incienso.

Pronunciation

  • Noun:
    • enPR: ĭn'sĕns, IPA(key): /ˈɪnsɛns/
  • Verb:
    • enPR: ĭnsĕns', IPA(key): /ɪnˈsɛns/
  • Rhymes: (verb) -ɛns

Noun

incense (countable and uncountable, plural incenses)

  1. A perfume used in the rites of various religions.
  2. (figurative) Homage; adulation.

Hyponyms

  • joss stick, incense stick

Derived terms

Related terms

  • frankincense

Translations

Verb

incense (third-person singular simple present incenses, present participle incensing, simple past and past participle incensed)

  1. (obsolete) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.
  2. (transitive) To anger or infuriate.
  3. (archaic) To incite, stimulate.
  4. (transitive) To offer incense to.
    • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Second Nun's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 410-413:
  5. (transitive) To perfume with, or as with, incense.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Nicenes

Galician

Verb

incense

  1. inflection of incensar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Latin

Participle

incēnse

  1. vocative masculine singular of incēnsus

References

  • “incense”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • incense in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • incense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “incense”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]
  • “incense”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Portuguese

Verb

incense

  1. inflection of incensar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org