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Yes. The word ordnance is a Scrabble US word. The word ordnance is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is ordnance a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word ordnance is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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8-letter words (1 found)

ORDNANCE,

7-letter words (2 found)

ACORNED,DRACONE,

6-letter words (22 found)

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5-letter words (55 found)

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4-letter words (79 found)

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3-letter words (52 found)

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2-letter words (19 found)

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1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 231 words from ordnance according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ordnance

ordnance

Etymology

A reduced form of ordinance, which is attested from the late 14th century in the sense of "military equipment or provisions". The sense of "artillery" arises in the early 15th century, the sense "military logistics" in the late 15th century. The shortened form ordnance arises by the 17th century, now often distinguished in writing from the other meanings of ordinance. Also doublet of ordonnance.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: ôrdʹnəns, IPA(key): /ˈɔːdnəns/, often /ˈɔːdɪnəns/
  • (US) enPR: ôrdʹnəns, IPA(key): /ˈoɹdnəns/, very often /ˈoɹdɪnəns/
  • Homophone: ordinance (some pronunciations)

Noun

ordnance (countable and uncountable, plural ordnances)

  1. Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
    • 1624, John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVI., in The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, ed. Charles M. Coffin, New York: Modern Library (1952), pp. 438-40:
      When the Turkes took Constantinople, they melted the Bells into Ordnance; I have heard both Bells and Ordnance, but never been so much affected with those, as with these Bells.
  2. Artillery.

Usage notes

  • Although prescriptive authorities say this word should now be pronounced with only two syllables, the original pronunciation with three syllables (like ordinance, from which this word derives) remains very common. (Shakespeare used both.)

Derived terms

  • Ordnance Survey
  • soft ordnance

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Source: wiktionary.org