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Is advance a Scrabble word?

Yes, advance is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 13 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of advance?

Definition

verb (English)

1. To move forward in space or time.Examples: "I advanced towards him step by step, stopping sometimes for fear of waking him."; "This army recaptured Wu-chʻang, on the right bank of the Yangtze, in 1854, reached Chen-chiang four years later, advanced to Chiu-chiang and threatened Nanking."intransitive

2. To move forward in space or time.Examples: "Earlier the caller said men were more likely to be in senior positions. Clegg says that's partly because the current maternity leave arrangements make it difficult for women to advance in the workplace."intransitive

3. To move forward in space or time.Examples: "I can promise you that you will feel even less humorous as the evening advances."intransitive

4. To raise, be raised.Examples: "The fringed Curtaines of thine eyes aduance."archaictransitive

5. To raise, be raised.intransitive

noun (English)

1. (often in the plural) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.Examples: "For, if it were of any use to recall matters of fact, what is more notorious, than that prince's applying himself first to the church of England? and upon their refusal to fall in with his measures, making the like advances to the dissenters of all kinds, who readily and almost universally complied with him"; "As the sun fell, so did our spirits. I had tried to make advances to the girl again; but she would have none of me, and so I was not only thirsty but otherwise sad and downhearted."; "I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored."in-pluraloften

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "advance"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "advance"?

Scrabble
13 points
A1
D2
V4
A1
N1
C3
E1
Words With Friends
16 points
A1
D2
V4
A1
N2
C4
E1

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