Faience
7 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Earthenware decorated with opaque coloured glazes, traditionally made in France and other Mediterranean regions.
“The museum displayed a remarkable collection of seventeenth-century French faience in blue and white.”
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fa·ience
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FAI opening with ENCE ending, four vowels A, I, E and E make this vowel-heavy
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Scrabble
Worth 13 points, four vowels help balance a consonant-loaded rack and the word is valid in Scrabble
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