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Is puce a Scrabble word?

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

P3U1C3E1

Is puce a Scrabble UK word?

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

P3U1C3E1

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Yes. The word puce is a Words With Friends word. The word puce is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

PUCE,

3-letter words (5 found)

CEP,CUE,CUP,ECU,PEC,

2-letter words (2 found)

PE,UP,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 9 words from puce according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of puce

puce upce pcue cpue ucpe cupe puec upec peuc epuc uepc eupc pceu cpeu pecu epcu cepu ecpu ucep cuep uecp eucp ceup ecup

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word puce. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in puce.

Definitions and meaning of puce

puce

Etymology

From French couleur puce, from Latin pūlex (“flea”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pjuːs/
  • Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

puce (countable and uncountable, plural puces)

  1. A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.

Translations

Adjective

puce (comparative pucer, superlative pucest)

  1. Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.

Descendants

  • → Welsh: piws

Translations

See also

  • Appendix:Colors

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French puce, pulce, from Latin pūlicem, from Proto-Indo-European *plúsis (“flea”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pys/
  • Homophones: puces, pusse, pussent, pusses

Noun

puce f (plural puces)

  1. flea
  2. chip (electronics), silicon chip
  3. (typography) bullet
  4. (endearing) sweetie (used to address a young girl, or to address a woman one is romantically involved with)

Derived terms

  • excité comme une puce
  • marché aux puces
  • mettre la puce à l’oreille
  • puces savantes
  • sac à puces
  • saut de puce
  • secouer les puces

Verb

puce

  1. inflection of pucer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Diminutive form of pȕto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pût͡se/
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ce

Noun

pȕce n (Cyrillic spelling пу̏це)

  1. button
Declension

Further reading

  • “puce” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • Skok, Petar (1972) “puce”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 2 (K – poni¹), Zagreb: JAZU, page 65

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

puce (Cyrillic spelling пуце)

  1. inflection of puca:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Source: wiktionary.org