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trapan

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Is trapan a Scrabble word?

Yes, trapan is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 8 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of trapan?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (probably originally thieves' cant, archaic or obsolete) A person (or occasionally an animal) that traps or tricks another into doing something that benefits them but harms the victim; a fraudster, a swindler, a trickster.Examples: "[O]ld associates who had once thought him [Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston] a man of dauntless courage and spotless honour, […] now pronounced that he was at best a meanspirited coward, and hinted their suspicions that he had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan."Synonyms: bunco-steerer, charlatan, cheat, cheater, chiseler, cozener, defrauder, finaglerarchaicobsolete

verb (English)

1. (figurative) To trap or trick (someone), especially by using some stratagem, into doing something that benefits the perpetrator but harms the victim; to defraud, to ensnare, to entrap, to swindle.Examples: "[…] [Edmund] Plovvden being of the Romiſh perſvvaſion, ſome Setters trapanned him (pardon the prolepſis) to hear Maſſe: But aftervvards Plovvden underſtanding, that the pretender to Officiate vvas no Prieſt, but a meer Lay-man (on deſigne to make a diſcovering) Oh! The caſe is altered quoth Plovvden: No Priest, no Maſſe."; "And haſt thou trepan'd me into a Tabernacle of the Godly? Is this Pious Boarding-houſe a place for me, thou vvicked Varlet?"; "[H]e hoped he did not intend to make uſe of him to trepan a man to his ruin."figurativelytransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "trapan"?

Scrabble
8 points
T1
R1
A1
P3
A1
N1
Words With Friends
10 points
T1
R1
A1
P4
A1
N2

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