Sconce is valid Scrabble Word

Is sconce a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is sconce valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for SCONCE in dictionary:

VERB:

to entrench, to screen
To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce.
To mulct; to fine.
challenge (a fellow student) to drink a large quantity of beer

PREPOSITION:

A fortification, or work for defense; a fort.
A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet.
Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion.
A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick.

Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.
A squinch.
A fragment of a floe of ice.
A fixed seat or shelf.

NOUN:

a candle holder that is attached to a wall with an ornamental bracket
a flaming torch or candle secured in a sconce
a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate.
a shelter or screen from fire or the weather.
bracket on a wall for holding candles or lights
a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather
a candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce
a decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to fine

Words related to SCONCE

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Words that contain SCONCE

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How to use SCONCE in a sentence

From what I could see of the house with the help of the light from a solitary candle hanging in a sconce upon the wall, it had once been a handsome building.
So he put a fresh candle in the sconce and began to prowl.
The bracket is then riveted to the back of the sconce.
The city of Magdeburg had a sconce or fort over against it called the toll-house, which joined to the city by a very fine bridge of boats.
A large book lay open upon his night-desk, a wax-light was still burning in its silver sconce.
The gendarme himself, apologetic but firm, stepped to the sconce and took the candle.
The sconce, thus won, was made good by a squadron of musketteers, which much annoyed the enemy, attempting to come upp agayne.

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