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Is quince a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word quince is a Scrabble US word. The word quince is worth 17 points in Scrabble:

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Is quince a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word quince is a Scrabble UK word and has 17 points:

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6-letter words (2 found)

CINQUE,QUINCE,

5-letter words (2 found)

CUNEI,QUINE,

4-letter words (6 found)

CINE,CINQ,NICE,QUIN,UNCE,UNCI,

3-letter words (6 found)

CUE,ECU,ICE,NIE,QIN,UNI,

2-letter words (6 found)

EN,IN,NE,NU,QI,UN,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 23 words from quince according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of quince

quince

Etymology 1

From Middle English quynce, coince, a variant of coins, coin (quince), from Old French cooing (modern coing), from Late Latin cotōneum, from Latin mālum cotōneum, a variant of mālum Cydonium (Cydonian apple), translating Ancient Greek μηλοκυδώνιον (mēlokudṓnion).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kwɪns/
  • Rhymes: -ɪns

Noun

quince (countable and uncountable, plural quinces)

  1. (countable) The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.
  2. (countable) The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia.
  3. A soft yellow colour, like that of a quince.
Hypernyms
  • fruit
  • pome
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Thai: ควินซ์ (kwíns)
  • Welsh: cwins
Translations

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkiːnseɪ/, /ˈkɪnseɪ/

Noun

quince (plural quinces)

  1. (informal) Clipping of quinceañera.

Anagrams

  • Cinque, cinque

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin quīndecim.

Numeral

quince (indeclinable)

  1. fifteen

Derived terms

  • quincenu

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese quinze, from Latin quīndecim.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: quin‧ce

Numeral

quince (indeclinable)

  1. fifteen

Middle English

Noun

quince

  1. Alternative form of quynce (quince)

Spanish

Alternative forms

  • quinze (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish quinze, quindze, from Latin quīndecim.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈkinθe/ [ˈkĩn̟.θe]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈkinse/ [ˈkĩn.se]
  • (Spain) Rhymes: -inθe
  • (Latin America) Rhymes: -inse
  • Syllabification: quin‧ce

Numeral

quince

  1. fifteen

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Cebuano: kinse
  • Tagalog: kinse

Further reading

  • “quince”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org