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Is likeness a Scrabble word?

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

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Is likeness a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is likeness a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word likeness is a Words With Friends word. The word likeness is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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8-letter words (1 found)

LIKENESS,

7-letter words (11 found)

ENISLES,ENSILES,ENSKIES,INKLESS,KINESES,KINLESS,SELKIES,SENILES,SENSILE,SILENES,SILKENS,

6-letter words (26 found)

EISELS,ELSINS,ENISLE,ENSILE,ESILES,ESKIES,INKLES,KISSEL,KNEELS,LENSES,LESSEN,LIKENS,NELIES,SEINES,SELKIE,SENILE,SENSEI,SESELI,SILENE,SILENS,SILKEN,SKEENS,SKEINS,SKENES,SLEEKS,SLINKS,

5-letter words (52 found)

EISEL,ELSIN,ESILE,ESNES,INKLE,ISLES,KEELS,KEENS,KILNS,KINES,KNEEL,KNEES,LEEKS,LENES,LENIS,LENSE,LESES,LIENS,LIKEN,LIKES,LINES,LINKS,LISKS,NELIS,NISSE,SEEKS,SEELS,SEILS,SEINE,SEISE,SELES,SENES,SENSE,SENSI,SIENS,SIKES,SILEN,SILES,SILKS,SINES,SINKS,SKEEN,SKEES,SKEIN,SKENE,SKENS,SKIES,SKINS,SLEEK,SLINK,SNEES,SNIES,

4-letter words (65 found)

EELS,EIKS,EINE,EKES,ELKS,ELSE,ENES,ESES,ESNE,ESSE,ILKS,INKS,ISLE,KEEL,KEEN,KENS,KILN,KINE,KINS,KISS,KNEE,LEEK,LEES,LEIS,LEKE,LEKS,LENS,LESS,LIEN,LIES,LIKE,LINE,LINK,LINS,LISK,NEKS,NESS,NIES,NILS,SEEK,SEEL,SEEN,SEES,SEIK,SEIL,SEIS,SELE,SELS,SENE,SENS,SESE,SIEN,SIES,SIKE,SILE,SILK,SINE,SINK,SINS,SKEE,SKEN,SKIN,SKIS,SLEE,SNEE,

3-letter words (37 found)

EEK,EEL,EEN,EIK,EKE,ELK,ELS,ENE,ENS,ESS,IKE,ILK,INK,INS,KEN,KIN,KIS,LEE,LEI,LEK,LES,LIE,LIN,LIS,NEE,NEK,NIE,NIL,NIS,SEE,SEI,SEL,SEN,SIK,SIN,SIS,SKI,

2-letter words (10 found)

EE,EL,EN,ES,IN,IS,KI,LI,NE,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 203 words from likeness according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of likeness

likeness

Etymology

From Middle English liknesse, from Old English līcness, ġelīcnes (“the quality of being like or equal; likeness; image; copy; pattern; example; parable”), from Proto-West Germanic *galīkanassī (“likeness”), equivalent to like +‎ -ness. Cognate with West Frisian likenis (“likeness”), Dutch gelijkenis (“similarity; likeness; parable”), German Low German Glieknis (“form; semblance; likeness; parable”), German Gleichnis (“form; semblance; image; likeness; parable; simile”). The verb is derived from the noun. Compare also Old Norse líkneskja (“figure, image, appearance, likeness”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaɪknəs/
  • Hyphenation: like‧ness

Noun

likeness (plural likenesses)

  1. The state or quality of being like or alike
    Synonyms: similitude, resemblance, similarity
  2. Appearance or form; guise.
    A foe in the likeness of a friend
    • Genesis, I, 26
      And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
  3. That which closely resembles; a portrait.
    How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.

Synonyms

  • similarity

Derived terms

  • mislikeness

Related terms

  • like

Translations

Verb

likeness (third-person singular simple present likenesses, present participle likenessing, simple past and past participle likenessed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To depict.
    • 1857, April 25, Alfred Lord Tennyson, letter to Reginald Southey, in Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (editors), The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume II: 1851-1870, Belknap Press (1987), →ISBN, page 171:
      I have this morning received the photographs of my two boys. The eldest is very well likenessed: the other, perhaps, not so well.
    • 1868, November, advertisement, in Arthur's Home Magazine, Volume XXXII, Number 21, after page 320:
      Every member of the family [of General Grant] is as faithfully likenessed as the photographs, which were given to the artist from the hands of the General himself, have power to express.

See also

  • copy
  • portrait
  • analogy
  • alikeness

Anagrams

  • eelskins

Source: wiktionary.org