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

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

M3E1R1C3E1S1

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6-letter words (2 found)

CREMES,MERCES,

5-letter words (9 found)

CERES,CREES,CREME,CREMS,MEERS,MERCS,MERES,MERSE,SCREE,

4-letter words (19 found)

CEES,CERE,CREE,CREM,EMES,ERES,MEER,MEES,MERC,MERE,MESE,RECS,REES,REMS,SEEM,SEER,SEME,SERE,SMEE,

3-letter words (15 found)

CEE,EME,EMS,ERE,ERM,ERS,MEE,MES,REC,REE,REM,RES,SEC,SEE,SER,

2-letter words (6 found)

EE,EM,ER,ES,ME,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 52 words from merces according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of merces

merces

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmer.keːs/, [ˈmɛrkeːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmer.t͡ʃes/, [ˈmɛrt͡ʃes]

Etymology 1

Noun

mercēs

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of merx

Etymology 2

From merx (“merchandise”)

Noun

mercēs f (genitive mercēdis); third declension

  1. pay, wages, reward
    Synonyms: praemium, pretium, stīpendium, oblātiō, commodum
  2. revenue, income
    Synonym: exitus
  3. chastisement, punishment, penalty
    Synonyms: pūnītiō, sānctiō, poena, supplicium, exemplum, vindicātiō, vindicta, animadversus, malum, pretium
  4. rent
  5. bribe
Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms
  • mercēdārius
  • mercēdituum
  • mercēdonius
  • mercēdula
  • mercēnārius/mercēnnārius
Descendants
  • Insular Romance
    • Sardinian: merchede
    • Sicilian: mirzidi, mirzì; (+ granni) grammirzì

Etymology 3

Verb

mercēs

  1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of mercō

References

  • “merces”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “merces”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • merces in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
  • merces 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)
  • merces in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “mercenary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: mer‧ces

Noun

merces

  1. plural of merce

Source: wiktionary.org