Scrabble & Words with friends points
- lapse is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 7
- lapse is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 7
- lapse is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 9
Definition of lapse
- a mistake resulting from inattention (noun)
Synonyms
- oversight
- pass into a specified state or condition (verb)
Synonyms
- pass
- sink
- pass by (verb)
Examples
- three years elapsed
Synonyms
- elapse
- glide by
- go along
- go by
- pass
- slide by
- slip away
- slip by
- go back to bad behavior (verb)
Synonyms
- fall back
- recidivate
- regress
- relapse
- retrogress
- drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards (verb)
Synonyms
- backslide
- a failure to maintain a higher state (noun)
Synonyms
- backsliding
- lapsing
- relapse
- relapsing
- reversion
- reverting
- a break or intermission in the occurrence of something (noun)
Examples
- a lapse of three weeks between letters
- end, at least for a long time (verb)
Examples
- The correspondence lapsed
- let slip (verb)
Examples
- He lapsed his membership
See definition of lapse in Merriam Webster