ypres

ypres is a 5-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. noun. battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
2. noun. battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
3. noun. battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ypres:

preys, pryse, pyres, spyer

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