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Yes. The word perverse is a Scrabble US word. The word perverse is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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8-letter words (2 found)

PERVERSE,PRESERVE,

7-letter words (6 found)

PEEVERS,PREEVES,RESERVE,REVERES,REVERSE,SEVERER,

6-letter words (13 found)

PEEVER,PEEVES,PERVES,PREEVE,PREVES,REEVES,REVERE,REVERS,SERVER,SEVERE,SPERRE,VERSER,VESPER,

5-letter words (22 found)

EPEES,EREVS,PEERS,PEEVE,PERES,PERSE,PERVE,PERVS,PREES,PRESE,PREVE,REEVE,RESEE,SERER,SERRE,SERVE,SEVER,SPEER,SPREE,VEEPS,VEERS,VERSE,

4-letter words (22 found)

EPEE,ERES,EREV,ERRS,EVER,EVES,PEER,PEES,PERE,PERV,PREE,REES,REPS,REVS,SEEP,SEER,SERE,SERR,VEEP,VEER,VEES,VERS,

3-letter words (16 found)

ERE,ERR,ERS,EVE,PEE,PER,PES,PRE,REE,REP,RES,REV,SEE,SER,SEV,VEE,

2-letter words (5 found)

EE,ER,ES,PE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 87 words from perverse according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of perverse

perverse

Etymology

From Middle English perverse, pervers, from Old French pervers, from Latin perversum (“thoroughly turned”), past participle of pervertere, from per- (“thoroughly”) + vertere (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /pɚˈvɝs/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pəˈvɜːs/
  • Hyphenation: per‧verse
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s

Adjective

perverse (comparative more perverse or perverser, superlative most perverse or perversest)

  1. Turned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing.
  2. Morally wrong or evil; wicked; perverted.
  3. Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable.
  4. Wayward; vexing; contrary.
    • 2023, Eric Sims, Jing Cynthia Wu, and Ji Zhang, The Four-Equation New Keynesian Model, The Review of Economics and Statistics 105(4), pp. 931--947
      Where this perverse sign flip occurs depends on the values of other parameters […].
  5. (law, of a verdict) Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.

Derived terms

  • perverse incentive
  • perversely
  • perverseness
  • perversity
  • polymorph-perverse

Translations

Noun

perverse (plural perverses) (archaic)

  1. (geometry) A chiral opposite of something; a mirror image with opposite handedness.

Derived terms

  • tendril perversion

Verb

perverse (third-person singular simple present perverses, present participle perversing, simple past and past participle perversed)

  1. (nonstandard) To pervert.

Anagrams

  • persever, preserve

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

perverse

  1. inflection of pervers:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

perverse

  1. feminine singular of pervers

Anagrams

  • préserve, préservé

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

perverse

  1. inflection of pervers:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

perverse

  1. feminine plural of perverso

Latin

Participle

perverse

  1. vocative masculine singular of perversus

References

  • “perverse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “perverse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • perverse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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