escape: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 10 letter points · starts with E · ends with E
Meaning of escape
verb
- intransitive
To get free; to free oneself.
Example: The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.
- transitive
To break out of confinement.
Example: The prisoners escaped their cell.
- transitive
To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
Example: He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.
- intransitive
To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
Example: Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.
Listed forms: escapes, escaping, escaped.
Source: Wiktionary — escape.
noun
- countable, uncountable
The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
Example: The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.
- countable, uncountable
Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
- countable, uncountable
Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- countable, uncountable
A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
Listed forms: escapes.
Source: Wiktionary — escape.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for escape.
noun
the act of escaping physically
noun
an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
noun
nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
noun
the discharge of a fluid from some container
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is escape in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of escape
E(1) + S(1) + C(3) + A(1) + P(3) + E(1) = 10 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of escape
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from escape
42 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in escape. Showing up to 24, longest first.