ETAPE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ETAPE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ETAPE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ETAPE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 8.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ETAPE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ETAPE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ETAPE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,562.
What stands out about ETAPE
- ETAPE begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ETAPE mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A stopping place where marching troops camped and received supplies, or the distance covered in a single day's march.
An army moving across a country in earlier centuries could not carry endless supplies with it, so commanders relied on a chain of fixed etape points along the route, each stocked with food, forage, and shelter for the night. The word could describe either the physical depot itself or, more loosely, the stretch of road the troops covered between one stopping place and the next. It came into English directly from French, where the same word still names a stage of a long journey, most familiarly today in the daily stages of a cycling race such as the Tour de France. In older military writing, however, etape almost always refers to the historical system of army supply and overnight quartering rather than to sport.
How ETAPE is used
A historical term from military logistics, describing a supply post or a day's march, occasionally echoed in French borrowings for stages of a journey.
- The regiment reached the etape just before nightfall.
- Supplies were distributed to the soldiers at every etape along the road.
- The general planned each day's etape carefully to avoid exhausting the men.
- Historians traced the old etape system used by eighteenth-century armies.
- The map marked every etape between the border and the capital.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ETAPE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ETAPE
1 longer words begin with ETAPE.
Words ending in ETAPE
3 words end in ETAPE. Useful as a back hook: play ETAPE onto a word already on the board.
Words with ETAPE inside
7 words contain ETAPE in the middle. Words that start with ETAPE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ETAPE
Common questions about ETAPE
- Is ETAPE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ETAPE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ETAPE worth?
- ETAPE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ETAPE mean?
- A stopping place where marching troops camped and received supplies, or the distance covered in a single day's march.
- What letters can be added to ETAPE?
- ETAPE takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ETAPE:
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