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Is suspense a Scrabble word?

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

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Is suspense a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Yes. The word suspense is a Words With Friends word. The word suspense is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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8-letter words (1 found)

SUSPENSE,

7-letter words (2 found)

SPENSES,SUSPENS,

6-letter words (8 found)

ENSUES,NESSES,PUSSES,SENSES,SEPSES,SPENSE,UNSEES,UPSEES,

5-letter words (16 found)

ENSUE,ESNES,ESSES,NEEPS,PEENS,PENES,PUSES,SEEPS,SENES,SENSE,SNEES,SPUES,SUPES,SUSES,UNSEE,UPSEE,

4-letter words (30 found)

ENES,ESES,ESNE,ESSE,NEEP,NEPS,NESS,PEEN,PEES,PENE,PENS,PUNS,PUSS,SEEN,SEEP,SEES,SENE,SENS,SEPS,SESE,SESS,SNEE,SPUE,SPUN,SUES,SUNS,SUPE,SUPS,SUSS,USES,

3-letter words (21 found)

EEN,ENE,ENS,ESS,NEE,NEP,NUS,PEE,PEN,PES,PUN,PUS,SEE,SEN,SUE,SUN,SUP,SUS,UNS,UPS,USE,

2-letter words (9 found)

EE,EN,ES,NE,NU,PE,UN,UP,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 88 words from suspense according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of suspense

suspense

Alternative forms

  • suspence (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English suspense, suspence, from Anglo-Norman suspens (as in en suspens) and Old French suspens, from Latin suspēnsus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /səˈspɛns/
  • Rhymes: -ɛns

Noun

suspense (usually uncountable, plural suspenses)

  1. The condition of being suspended; cessation for a time.
  2. the pleasurable emotion of anticipation and excitement regarding the outcome or climax of a book, film etc.
  3. The unpleasant emotion of anxiety or apprehension in an uncertain situation.
  4. (law) A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.
  5. (US, military) A deadline.
    She sent us that assignment with a suspense of noon tomorrow.

Derived terms

  • in suspense
  • suspense account
  • suspenseful

Translations

Adjective

suspense (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
  2. (obsolete) Expressing, or proceeding from, suspense or doubt.

French

Etymology 1

Nominalisation of the feminine form of suspens.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sys.pɑ̃s/

Noun

suspense f (plural suspenses)

  1. suspense (state of being suspended)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English suspense, itself from Old French suspense. Doublet of suspens.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sys.pɛns/

Noun

suspense m (plural suspenses)

  1. suspense (emotion; feeling)

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From French suspense, from English suspense.

Noun

suspense m (plural suspenses)

  1. suspense
  2. thriller

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English suspense.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsa.spens/, /suˈspans/, /syˈspans/
  • Rhymes: -aspens, -ans

Noun

suspense f (invariable)

  1. suspense (all senses)

References

Latin

Participle

suspēnse

  1. vocative masculine singular of suspēnsus

References

  • “suspense”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • suspense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English suspense.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: sus‧pen‧se

Noun

suspense m (plural suspenses)

  1. suspense (the excited anticipation of an outcome)
  2. (fiction) thriller (a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French suspense, from English suspense.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /susˈpense/ [susˈpẽn.se]
  • Rhymes: -ense
  • Syllabification: sus‧pen‧se

Noun

suspense m (plural suspenses)

  1. (Spain) suspense
    Synonym: (Latin America) suspenso
  2. thriller

Derived terms

Further reading

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

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