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Is wane a Scrabble word?

Yes, wane is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 7 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of wane?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (literary) The end of a period.Examples: "The day was in its prime, the day was in its wane, and still, uneasy in mind and body, she slept on."; "The situation of the Venetian party in the wane of the eighteenth century had become extremely critical."; "]"literary

2. (woodworking) A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.Examples: "2002, Peter Ross, Appraisal and Repair of Timber Structures, p. 11, Sapwood, or even bark, may appear on the corners, or may have been cut off, resulting in wane, or missing timber."

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.Examples: "You saw but sorrow in its waning form."; "Land and trade ever will wax and wane together."; "I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of its tormented flaming life; and I have seen it wane at last, down, down, to dumbest dust."intransitive

2. (intransitive) For light to dim or diminish in strength.Examples: "The skies may hold not the splendour of sundown fast; / It wanes into twilight as dawn dies down into day."intransitive

3. (intransitive, astronomy) For the Moon to pass through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.Examples: "The fall of Jack, and the subsequent fall of Jill, simply represent the vanishing of one moon-spot after another, as the moon wanes."intransitive

4. (intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.Examples: "Fast as autumn days toward winter: yet it seems//Here that autumn wanes not, here that woods and streams"intransitive

5. (intransitive, archaic) To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.Examples: "The snow which had been for some time waning, had given way entirely under the fresh gale of the preceding night."; "Denisovans had little genetic diversity, suggesting that their small population waned further as populations of modern humans expanded."archaicintransitive

6. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to decrease.Examples: "In which no lustful finger can profane him, Nor any earth with black eclipses wane him"; "Proud once and princely was the mansion, ere a succession of spendthrifts waned away its splendour."obsoletetransitive

noun (English)

1. (Scotland, slang) A child.Scotlandslang

noun (English)

1. (chiefly Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) A house or dwelling.Northern-EnglandScotlandobsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "wane"?

Scrabble
7 points
W4
A1
N1
E1
Words With Friends
8 points
W4
A1
N2
E1

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