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Is trepan a Scrabble word?

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

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Is trepan a Scrabble UK word?

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

T1R1E1P3A1N1

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6-letter words (6 found)

ARPENT,ENRAPT,ENTRAP,PANTER,PARENT,TREPAN,

5-letter words (15 found)

ANTRE,APERT,APTER,ARPEN,EARNT,PAREN,PATEN,PATER,PEART,PETAR,PRATE,PRENT,TAPEN,TAPER,TRAPE,

4-letter words (38 found)

ANTE,APER,ARET,EARN,ETNA,NAPE,NARE,NEAP,NEAR,NEAT,PANE,PANT,PARE,PART,PATE,PEAN,PEAR,PEAT,PENT,PERN,PERT,PRAT,RANT,RAPE,RAPT,RATE,REAN,REAP,RENT,TANE,TAPE,TARE,TARN,TARP,TEAR,TEPA,TERN,TRAP,

3-letter words (38 found)

ANE,ANT,APE,APT,ARE,ART,ATE,EAN,EAR,EAT,ERA,ERN,ETA,NAE,NAP,NAT,NEP,NET,PAN,PAR,PAT,PEA,PEN,PER,PET,PRE,RAN,RAP,RAT,REN,REP,RET,TAE,TAN,TAP,TAR,TEA,TEN,

2-letter words (15 found)

AE,AN,AR,AT,EA,EN,ER,ET,NA,NE,PA,PE,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 113 words from trepan according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of trepan

trepan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɹɪˈpæn/
  • Rhymes: -æn
  • Hyphenation: tre‧pan

Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trepan, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trephine.

Noun

trepan (plural trepans)

  1. A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
  2. (medicine) A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.
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See also
  • hole saw

Verb

trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepanning or trepaning, simple past and past participle trepanned or trepaned)

  1. (transitive, manufacturing, mining) To create a large hole by making a narrow groove outlining the shape of the hole and then removing the plug of material remaining by less expensive means.
  2. (medicine) To use a trepan; to trephine.
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Etymology 2

Possibly from Old English treppan (“to trap”).

Noun

trepan (plural trepans)

  1. (archaic) A trickster.
  2. (archaic) A snare; a trapan.
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Verb

trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepanning, simple past and past participle trepanned)

  1. (archaic) To ensnare; to seduce, to trick.
    • 1798 Charlotte Turner Smith: The Young Philosopher. Vol.4, Chapter 9.
      […] a post-chaise, into which he had so infamously trepanned me […]
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Anagrams

  • -pteran, Panter, Parten, arpent, enrapt, entrap, panter, parent

Galician

Verb

trepan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of trepar

Spanish

Verb

trepan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of trepar

Source: wiktionary.org