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Is please a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word please is a Scrabble US word. The word please is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is please a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word please is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

P3L1E1A1S1E1

Is please a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word please is a Words With Friends word. The word please is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (4 found)

ASLEEP,ELAPSE,PLEASE,SAPELE,

5-letter words (20 found)

EALES,EASEL,EASLE,LAPSE,LEAPS,LEASE,LEEPS,PALES,PEALS,PEASE,PEELS,PELAS,PELES,PLEAS,SALEP,SEPAL,SLEEP,SPALE,SPEAL,SPEEL,

4-letter words (37 found)

ALEE,ALES,ALPS,APES,APSE,EALE,EASE,EELS,ELSE,LAPS,LASE,LEAP,LEAS,LEEP,LEES,LEPS,PALE,PALS,PASE,PEAL,PEAS,PEEL,PEES,PELA,PELE,PELS,PLEA,SALE,SALP,SEAL,SEEL,SEEP,SELE,SLAE,SLAP,SLEE,SPAE,

3-letter words (27 found)

ALE,ALP,ALS,APE,ASP,EAS,EEL,ELS,LAP,LAS,LEA,LEE,LEP,LES,PAL,PAS,PEA,PEE,PEL,PES,SAE,SAL,SAP,SEA,SEE,SEL,SPA,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AL,AS,EA,EE,EL,ES,LA,PA,PE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 99 words from please according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of please

please

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pliːz/
  • (General American) enPR: plēz, IPA(key): /pliz/
  • Rhymes: -iːz
  • Homophone: pleas

Etymology 1

From Middle English plesen, plaisen, borrowed from Old French plaise, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin placeō (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleHk- (“pleasingness, permission”). In this sense, displaced native Old English līcian, whence Modern English like.

Alternative forms

  • pleace (used from the Middle English period up to the 15th century, and in Scots until the 17th century)
  • plaise

Verb

please (third-person singular simple present pleases, present participle pleasing, simple past and past participle pleased)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
  2. (intransitive, ergative) To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
Conjugation
Synonyms
  • (to make happy): satisfy
  • (to desire): desire, will
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of "to make happy"): annoy, irritate, disgust, displease
Derived terms
Related terms
  • pleasant
  • pleasurable
  • pleasure
Descendants
  • → Dutch: pleasen
Translations

Etymology 2

Short for if you please, an intransitive, ergative form taken from if it please you which is a calque of French s’il vous plaît, which replaced pray.

Alternative forms

  • (for the exaggerated way it is often pronounced as the expression of annoyance) puh-lease

Adverb

please (not comparable)

  1. Used to make a polite request.
  2. Used as an affirmative to an offer.
  3. An expression of annoyance or impatience.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Bengali: প্লিজ (plij), প্লীজ (plij)
  • → Finnish: pliis (colloquial)
  • → Hindi: प्लीज़ (plīz) (urban, colloquial)
Translations

Etymology 3

Semantic loan from German bitte (“please; excuse me”).

Interjection

please

  1. (Cincinnati) Said as a request to repeat information.
Synonyms
  • (request to repeat): what, excuse me, pardon me, come again; see also Thesaurus:say again

References

Anagrams

  • Sapele, asleep, elapse, sapele

Source: wiktionary.org