morceau
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of morceau
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A small bit; a morsel or snippet.
“M. De Luc has a specimen of the uranite (Peckblend) mixed with titan and crystals of quartz, a morceau of singular beauty”
“Amongſt a variety of urns, sepulchral fragments, and different morceaus of antiquity, are the known and celebrated buſts of Alexander the Great, and Brutus”
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Etymology
From French morceau, from Old French morsel, from Medieval Latin morsellum (“a bit, a little piece”), diminutive of Latin morsum (“a bit”), neuter of morsus, past participle of mordeō, mordēre (“bite, nibble, gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (“to rub, wipe; to pack, rob”). Doublet of morsel.
Words you can make from morceau
102 playable · top: CAMEO (9 pts)
Best play cameo 9 points5-letter words
11 words4-letter words
35 words- ACME 8 pts
- CAME 8 pts
- CAMO 8 pts
- COMA 8 pts
- COME 8 pts
- CORM 8 pts
- CRAM 8 pts
- MACE 8 pts
- MARC 8 pts
- MERC 8 pts
- ACRE 6 pts
- ACRO 6 pts
- ARCO 6 pts
- ARUM 6 pts
- CARE 6 pts
- CERO 6 pts
- CORE 6 pts
- CURE 6 pts
- ECRU 6 pts
- MARE 6 pts
- MEOU 6 pts
- MORA 6 pts
- MORE 6 pts
- MOUE 6 pts
- MURA 6 pts
- MURE 6 pts
- OMER 6 pts
- ORCA 6 pts
- RACE 6 pts
- REAM 6 pts
- ROAM 6 pts
- AERO 4 pts
- EURO 4 pts
- ROUE 4 pts
- UREA 4 pts
3-letter words
41 words- CAM 7 pts
- CUM 7 pts
- MAC 7 pts
- MOC 7 pts
- ACE 5 pts
- AMU 5 pts
- ARC 5 pts
- ARM 5 pts
- CAR 5 pts
- COR 5 pts
- CRU 5 pts
- CUE 5 pts
- CUR 5 pts
- ECO 5 pts
- ECU 5 pts
- EMO 5 pts
- EMU 5 pts
- MAE 5 pts
- MAR 5 pts
- MOA 5 pts
- MOR 5 pts
- OCA 5 pts
- OMA 5 pts
- ORC 5 pts
- RAM 5 pts
- REC 5 pts
- REM 5 pts
- ROC 5 pts
- ROM 5 pts
- RUM 5 pts
- ARE 3 pts
- ARO 3 pts
- EAR 3 pts
- EAU 3 pts
- ERA 3 pts
- OAR 3 pts
- ORA 3 pts
- ORE 3 pts
- OUR 3 pts
- ROE 3 pts
- RUE 3 pts
2-letter words
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