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Is scarce a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word scarce is a Scrabble US word. The word scarce is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

S1C3A1R1C3E1

Is scarce a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word scarce is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

S1C3A1R1C3E1

Is scarce a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word scarce is a Words With Friends word. The word scarce is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1C4A1R1C4E1

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6-letter words (2 found)

ARCSEC,SCARCE,

5-letter words (9 found)

ACERS,ACRES,CARES,CARSE,ESCAR,RACES,SCARE,SCRAE,SERAC,

4-letter words (20 found)

ACER,ACES,ACRE,AESC,ARCS,ARES,ARSE,CARE,CARS,CASE,CEAS,CECA,EARS,ERAS,RACE,RASE,RECS,SCAR,SEAR,SERA,

3-letter words (18 found)

ACE,ARC,ARE,ARS,CAR,EAR,EAS,ERA,ERS,RAS,REC,RES,SAC,SAE,SAR,SEA,SEC,SER,

2-letter words (7 found)

AE,AR,AS,EA,ER,ES,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 57 words from scarce according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of scarce

scarce

Alternative forms

  • scarse (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English scarce, skarce, scarse, scars, from Old Northern French scars, escars ("sparing, niggard, parsimonious, miserly, poor"; > French échars, Medieval Latin scarsus (“diminished, reduced”)), of uncertain origin. One theory is that it derives originally from a Late Latin *scarpsus, *excarpsus, a participle form of *excarpere (“take out”), from Latin ex- + carpere; yet the sense evolution is difficult to trace. Compare Middle Dutch schaers (“sparing, niggard”), Middle Dutch schaers (“a pair of shears, plowshare”), scheeren (“to shear”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈskɛəs/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈskɛɚs/, /skɑːɹs/ (nonstandard)
  • (dialectal) IPA(key): /ˈskeɪs/

Adjective

scarce (comparative scarcer, superlative scarcest)

  1. (chiefly of resources, such as food) Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
  2. Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.

Synonyms

  • (uncommon, rare): geason, infrequent, raresome; see also Thesaurus:rare

Derived terms

Related terms

  • scarcity

Translations

Adverb

scarce (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, literary) Scarcely, only just.

References

Anagrams

  • Craces, arcsec

Middle English

Noun

scarce

  1. Alternative form of sarse

Source: wiktionary.org