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Is infest a Scrabble word?

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

I1N1F4E1S1T1

Is infest a Scrabble UK word?

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

I1N1F4E1S1T1

Is infest a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word infest is a Words With Friends word. The word infest is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

I1N2F4E1S1T1

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6-letter words (4 found)

FEINTS,FIENTS,FINEST,INFEST,

5-letter words (19 found)

FEINT,FEIST,FENIS,FENTS,FIENT,FIEST,FINES,INSET,NEIFS,NEIST,NIEFS,NIFES,NITES,SENTI,SIENT,SNIFT,STEIN,TEINS,TINES,

4-letter words (36 found)

EFTS,ENTS,FEIS,FENI,FENS,FENT,FEST,FETS,FINE,FINS,FIST,FITS,NEFS,NEIF,NEST,NETS,NIEF,NIES,NIFE,NITE,NITS,SEIF,SENT,SIEN,SIFT,SINE,SITE,SNIT,STEN,STIE,TEFS,TEIN,TENS,TIES,TINE,TINS,

3-letter words (30 found)

EFS,EFT,ENS,EST,FEN,FES,FET,FIE,FIN,FIT,IFS,INS,ITS,NEF,NET,NIE,NIS,NIT,SEI,SEN,SET,SIF,SIN,SIT,TEF,TEN,TES,TIE,TIN,TIS,

2-letter words (14 found)

EF,EN,ES,ET,FE,IF,IN,IS,IT,NE,SI,ST,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

Definitions and meaning of infest

infest

Etymology

From Middle English infesten, from Old French infester (“to infest”), from Latin īnfestō (“assail, molest”, verb), from īnfestus (“hostile”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪnˈfɛst/
  • Rhymes: -ɛst

Verb

infest (third-person singular simple present infests, present participle infesting, simple past and past participle infested)

  1. (transitive) To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass.
  2. (pathology, of a parasite) To invade a host plant or animal.

Synonyms

  • beride, plague

Related terms

  • infestation
  • infestuous

Translations

Adjective

infest (comparative more infest, superlative most infest)

  1. (obsolete) Mischievous; hurtful; harassing.

Noun

infest (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Hostility.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II, Canto Eleven, Stanza 32, Hackett, 2006, p. 191,
      Like as a fire, the which in hollow cave
      Hath long bene underkept, and down supprest,
      With murmurous disdayne doth inly rave,
      And grudge, in so streight prison to be prest,
      At last breakes forth with furious infest,
      And strives to mount unto his native seat […]

Anagrams

  • feints, finest, stefin

Source: wiktionary.org