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Is malice a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word malice is a Scrabble US word. The word malice is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

M3A1L1I1C3E1

Is malice a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word malice is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

M3A1L1I1C3E1

Is malice a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word malice is a Words With Friends word. The word malice is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

M4A1L2I1C4E1

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6-letter words (2 found)

MALEIC,MALICE,

5-letter words (11 found)

AMICE,CAMEL,CLAIM,CLAME,CLIME,EMAIL,ILEAC,MACLE,MAILE,MALIC,MELIC,

4-letter words (29 found)

ACME,ALEC,ALME,AMIE,CALM,CAME,CAMI,CEIL,CIEL,CLAM,CLEM,EMIC,ILEA,LACE,LAIC,LAME,LEAM,LICE,LIMA,LIME,MACE,MAIL,MALE,MALI,MEAL,MELA,MICA,MICE,MILE,

3-letter words (22 found)

ACE,AIL,AIM,ALE,AME,AMI,CAL,CAM,CEL,ELM,ICE,LAC,LAM,LEA,LEI,LIE,MAC,MAE,MAL,MEL,MIC,MIL,

2-letter words (12 found)

AE,AI,AL,AM,EA,EL,EM,LA,LI,MA,ME,MI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 77 words from malice according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of malice

malice

Etymology

From Middle English malice, borrowed from Old French malice, from Latin malitia (“badness, bad quality, ill-will, spite”), from malus (“bad”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: măl'ĭs, IPA(key): /ˈmælɪs/

Noun

malice (usually uncountable, plural malices)

  1. Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
  2. (law) An intention to do injury to another party, which in many jurisdictions is a distinguishing factor between the crimes of murder and manslaughter.

Synonyms

  • (intention to harm): evilness, ill will, wickedness

Derived terms

Related terms

  • malady

Translations

Further reading

  • “malice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “malice”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Verb

malice (third-person singular simple present malices, present participle malicing, simple past and past participle maliced)

  1. To intend to cause harm; to bear malice.

Synonyms

  • envy (obsolete), grudge (obsolete), spite

Anagrams

  • amelic, claime, maleic

Esperanto

Etymology

From malico +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maˈlit͡se/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧lic‧e
  • Rhymes: -it͡se

Adverb

malice

  1. maliciously

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French malice, borrowed from Latin malitia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.lis/

Noun

malice f (plural malices)

  1. mischief
  2. malice

Related terms

  • mal

Further reading

  • “malice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin malitia.

Noun

malice oblique singular, f (oblique plural malices, nominative singular malice, nominative plural malices)

  1. malice, evilness, evil intentions
  2. malicious act

Descendants

  • → Middle English: malice
    • English: malice
  • French: malice
  • → Irish: mailís

References

  • malice on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Source: wiktionary.org