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Is flash a Scrabble word?

Yes, flash is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 11 points in Scrabble.

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Definition

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.Examples: "He flashed the light at the water, trying to see what made the noise."transitive

2. (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.Examples: "The light flashed on and off."; "Eugenie's quick apprehensions seized the foul thought. Her eyes flashed—her cheek crimsoned."; "Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines."Synonyms: glintintransitive

3. (intransitive) To be visible briefly.Examples: "The scenery flashed by quickly."; "Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands."intransitive

4. (transitive) To make visible briefly.Examples: "A number will be flashed on the screen."; "The special agents flashed their badges as they entered the building."; "She flashed me a smile from the car window."transitive

5. (ambitransitive, informal) To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)Examples: "She flashed a vocalist at a rock concert."; "Her skirt was so short that she flashed her underpants as she was getting out of her car."ambitransitiveinformal

6. (figurative) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.Examples: "For although party's worn-out moulds have been shivered, and names which have flashed and thundered as the watchwords of unnumbered struggles for power are now fast waning into history, it is too much to hope, perhaps to desire, until the education of mankind shall more nearly approach its completion, that strong differences of opinion and feeling should cease to agitate the scenes on which freemen are called to discharge political duties."; "But while he jested thus, / A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act. / Remembering how we three presented Maid, / Or Nymph, or Goddess, at high tide of feast, / In masque or pageant at my father's court."; "The Isabella [Isabella, or the Pot of Basil], then, is a perfect treasure-house of graceful and felicitous words and images: almost in every stanza there occurs one of those vivid and picturesque turns of expression, by which the object is made to flash upon the eye of the mind, and which thrill the reader with a sudden delight."figuratively

noun (English)

1. (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.Examples: "I reached a flash out of my car pocket and went down-grade and looked at the car."UScolloquialcountableuncountable

2. (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.Examples: "[B]reath his faults ſo quaintly, / That they may ſeeme the taints of liberty; / The flaſh and out-breake of a fiery minde, / A ſauagenes in vnreclaim'd bloud of generall aſſault."; "I cannot learn that he [Patrick Henry] gave, in his youth, any evidence of that precocity which sometimes distinguishes uncommon genius. His companions recollect no instance of premature wit, no striking sentiment, no flash of fancy, no remarkable beauty or strength of expression; and no indication, however slight, either of that impassioned love of liberty, or of that adventurous daring and intrepidity, which marked, so strongly, his future character."; "Fabio Capello insisted [Wayne] Rooney was in the right frame of mind to play in stormy Podgorica despite his father's arrest on Thursday in a probe into alleged betting irregularities, but his flash of temper – when he kicked out at Miodrag Dzudovic – suggested otherwise."countablefigurativelyuncountable

3. (figurative, uncountable) Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.Examples: "Above all, they hate flash. Just as the English working class has always been, they are fiercely puritanical and abhor all forms of display."; "Another pleasant surprise of She-Devil is director Susan Seidelman's infusion of political moxie into the movie, a departure from her tendency to dish out lots of flash with little substance."; "The ATF sound was lacking in extended solos, flash, and pomposity, but CBS liked the group's respect for traditional Anglo-rock, their Beatles-like energy, and the splashes of Yes, Genesis, and 10cc that colored their music."Synonyms: elan, flairfigurativelyuncountable

4. (British, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.BritishCockneycountableuncountable

5. (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.countableuncountable

6. (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.countableuncountable

adj (English)

1. (British, Australia and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.Examples: "The barber man was small and flash, as barbers mostly are, He wore a strike-your-fancy sash, he smoked a huge cigar;"AustraliaBritishNew-Zealandslang

2. (UK, of a person) Having plenty of ready money.UK

3. (UK, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.Examples: "Bit of a flash git, don't you think?"UK

4. (US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.USslang

5. (slang, obsolete) Relating to thieves and vagabonds.Examples: "the flash language: thieves' cant or slang"; "flash notes: counterfeit banknotes"; "Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?"obsoleteslang

noun (English)

1. (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.

name (English)

1. (computing) A multimedia platform, most often used for adding animation and interactivity to webpages.Examples: "Your Web site doesn't have to be full of the latest dropdowns, rollovers, superslick graphics, or Flash videos."; "Flash games are ever so popular on the Web. As the capabilities of the Flash Player continue to improve, better and more powerful games can be built."

name (English)

1. (DC Comics) Any of various DC Comics superheroes who have the power of superspeed, derived from an energy called the Speed Force.

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "flash"?

Scrabble
11 points
F4
L1
A1
S1
H4
Words With Friends
11 points
F4
L2
A1
S1
H3

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