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encroach

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Is encroach a Scrabble word?

Yes, encroach is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 15 points in Scrabble.

Word Games

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

What is the meaning of encroach?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (transitive, obsolete) to seize, appropriateobsoletetransitive

2. (intransitive) To intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory.Examples: "[D]rowſie drouping Age, / incroaching on apace, / With penſiue Plough will raze your hue / and Beauties beames deface."; "Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere."; "Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely, stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other."intransitive

3. (intransitive) To advance gradually beyond due limits.intransitive

noun (English)

1. (rare) Encroachment.Examples: "All that we see, all colours of all shade, By encroach of darkness made?"; "Shorey was among the most vociferous opponents of the encroach of scientism and utilitarianism in education and society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."rare

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "encroach"?

Scrabble
15 points
E1
N1
C3
R1
O1
A1
C3
H4
Words With Friends
17 points
E1
N2
C4
R1
O1
A1
C4
H3

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