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Is sincere a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word sincere is a Scrabble US word. The word sincere is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is sincere a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word sincere is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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Is sincere a Words With Friends word?

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

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7-letter words (3 found)

CERESIN,SCRIENE,SINCERE,

6-letter words (14 found)

CENSER,CERISE,CERNES,CRINES,NEREIS,NIECES,RENIES,SCERNE,SCREEN,SCRINE,SECERN,SEINER,SEREIN,SERINE,

5-letter words (30 found)

CENSE,CERES,CERNE,CINES,CIRES,CREES,CRIES,CRINE,CRISE,ERICS,ERNES,ICERS,NICER,NIECE,REENS,REINS,RESIN,RICES,RINES,RINSE,RISEN,SCENE,SCREE,SEINE,SERIC,SERIN,SINCE,SIREE,SIREN,SNEER,

4-letter words (39 found)

CEES,CENS,CERE,CINE,CIRE,CREE,CRIS,EINE,ENES,ERES,ERIC,ERNE,ERNS,ESNE,ICER,ICES,IRES,NICE,NIES,RECS,REEN,REES,REIN,REIS,RENS,RICE,RINE,RINS,RISE,SEEN,SEER,SEIR,SENE,SERE,SICE,SIEN,SINE,SIRE,SNEE,

3-letter words (29 found)

CEE,CIS,EEN,ENE,ENS,ERE,ERN,ERS,ICE,INS,IRE,NEE,NIE,NIS,REC,REE,REI,REN,RES,RIN,SEC,SEE,SEI,SEN,SER,SIC,SIN,SIR,SRI,

2-letter words (9 found)

EE,EN,ER,ES,IN,IS,NE,RE,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 125 words from sincere according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sincere

sincere

Etymology

From Middle French sincere, from Latin sincerus (“genuine”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- + *ḱer- (“grow”), from which also Ceres (“goddess of harvest”) from which English cereal.

Unrelated to sine (“without”) + cera (“wax”) (folk etymology); see Wikipedia page.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɪnˈsɪə(ɹ)/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /sɪnˈsɪɹ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Adjective

sincere (comparative more sincere or sincerer, superlative most sincere or sincerest)

  1. Genuine; meaning what one says or does; heartfelt.
  2. Meant truly or earnestly.
  3. (archaic) clean; pure

Synonyms

  • earnest

Antonyms

  • insincere

Related terms

  • cereal
  • Ceres
  • crescent
  • sincerity
  • sincereness

Translations

Further reading

  • “sincere”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “sincere”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “sincere”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • sincere in Britannica Dictionary
  • sincere in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
  • sincere in Ozdic collocation dictionary
  • sincere in WordReference English Collocations

Anagrams

  • cereins, ceresin, cerines, renices

Esperanto

Etymology

sincera +‎ -e

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sinˈt͡sere]
  • Rhymes: -ere
  • Hyphenation: sin‧ce‧re

Adverb

sincere

  1. sincerely

Antonyms

  • malsincere (“insincerely”)

Italian

Adjective

sincere f pl

  1. feminine plural of sincero

Anagrams

  • censire, crisene, recensì, recinse, scernei, secerni

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

sincērē (not comparable)

  1. uprightly, honestly, frankly, sincerely
    • 1st century, Catullus, Poem 109
      Di magni, facite ut vere promittere possit // atque id sincere dicat ex animo

Etymology 2

Adjective

sincēre

  1. vocative masculine singular of sincērus

References

  • “sincere”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sincere”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle French

Etymology

First attested in 1441, borrowed from Latin sincērus.

Adjective

sincere m or f (plural sinceres)

  1. sincere (genuinely meaning what one says or does)

Descendants

  • → English: sincere
  • French: sincère

References

Spanish

Verb

sincere

  1. inflection of sincerar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org