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Is tierce a Scrabble word?

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

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Is tierce a Scrabble UK word?

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

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6-letter words (4 found)

CERITE,CERTIE,RECITE,TIERCE,

5-letter words (7 found)

CITER,ERECT,RECIT,RECTI,RETIE,TERCE,TRICE,

4-letter words (19 found)

CERE,CERT,CETE,CIRE,CITE,CREE,CRIT,ERIC,ETIC,ICER,RETE,RICE,RITE,TEER,TICE,TIER,TIRE,TREE,TRIE,

3-letter words (14 found)

CEE,CIT,ERE,ICE,IRE,REC,REE,REI,RET,RIT,TEC,TEE,TIC,TIE,

2-letter words (7 found)

EE,ER,ET,IT,RE,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 52 words from tierce according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tierce

tierce

Etymology

From Old French tierce, from Latin tertia.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɪəs/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɪɚs/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɜːs/ (card)
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)s, -ɜːs

Noun

tierce (plural tierces)

  1. (obsolete) A third.
  2. (religion, Roman Catholicism) Synonym of terce: the third canonical hour or its service.
  3. (now historical) A measure of capacity equal to a third of a pipe, or a cask or other vessel holding such a quantity; a cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which wine or salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.
  4. (music) The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
  5. (card games) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.
  6. (fencing) The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
  7. (heraldry) An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.
  8. (obsolete) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. (Also known as a third.)

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Translations

Anagrams

  • cerite, receit, recite

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French tierce, tiers, from Latin tertia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tjɛʁs/

Adjective

tierce

  1. feminine singular of tiers

Noun

tierce f (plural tierces)

  1. (music) third
  2. terce

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • écrite, étréci, récite, récité

Old French

Adjective

tierce m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tierce)

  1. Alternative form of tiers

Usage notes

  • Unlike Modern French tierce, it is attested with masculine nouns as well as feminine ones.

Source: wiktionary.org