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Is less a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word less is a Scrabble US word. The word less is worth 4 points in Scrabble:
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Is less a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word less is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:
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Is less a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word less is a Words With Friends word. The word less is worth 5 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 9 words from less according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
less elss lses sles esls sels less elss lses sles esls sels lsse slse lsse slse ssle ssle essl sesl essl sesl ssel ssel
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word less. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in less.
Adverb From Middle English les, lesse, leasse, lasse, from Old English lǣs (“smaller, less”), from Proto-Germanic *laisiz, from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to shrink, grow thin, be gentle”).(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Cognate with Old Frisian lēs (“less”), Old Saxon lēs (“less”). According to Kroonen (2013), from a northern Indo-European root Proto-Indo-European *leh₂is- or *leh₃is-, which he connects to Lithuanian liesas (“lean”).
Determiner and preposition from Middle English lees, lesse, leasse, lasse, from Old English lǣssa (“less”), from Proto-Germanic *laisizan-, from Proto-Germanic *laisiz (“smaller, lesser, fewer, lower”) (see above). Cognate with Old Frisian lessa (“less”).
Verb from Middle English lessen, from the determiner.
Noun from Middle English lesse, from the determiner.
less (diminutive comparative)
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Some[*] regard the use of the determiner less with countable quantities to be incorrect, stating that less should indicate only a reduction in uncountable quantity, or in size or significance, leaving fewer to indicate a smaller numerical quantity. For example, they suggest saying less sugar, but fewer people, not less people. Such a rule can allow distinctions such as:
Nevertheless, less has been widely understood and commonly used as a synonym for fewer since it first appeared in Old English as læs.
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less (third-person singular simple present lesses, present participle lessing, simple past and past participle lessed)
less (not comparable)
less (uncountable)
From Middle English lesse, les, from Old English lǣs, as in þȳ lǣs þe.
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les + -j
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From Latin elixus. Compare Italian lesso (“boiled meat”).
less m (invariable)
From Old Norse látast. Cognate with Swedish låtsas.
less (present tense less, past tense less)
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Suggested by Stokes to be from Proto-Celtic *lesso-, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”), similar to Proto-Slavic *plodъ (“fruit”).
less m (genitive lesso)
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Borrowed from German Löss.
less m inan
Clipping of lessen, pronunciation spelling of ledsen (“sad”), alternatively interpreted as a pronunciation spelling of a clipping of ledsen.
less (comparative mer less, superlative mest less)
Only used predicatively with the common gender singular. The comparative form lessare and superlative lessast exist but are considered nonstandard, so this word is mostly compared periphrastically.