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Yes. The word adept is a Scrabble US word. The word adept is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is adept a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word adept is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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5-letter words (4 found)

ADEPT,APTED,PATED,TAPED,

4-letter words (8 found)

APED,DATE,PATE,PEAT,TAED,TAPE,TEAD,TEPA,

3-letter words (18 found)

APE,APT,ATE,DAE,DAP,DEP,EAT,ETA,PAD,PAT,PEA,PED,PET,TAD,TAE,TAP,TEA,TED,

2-letter words (12 found)

AD,AE,AT,DA,DE,EA,ED,ET,PA,PE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 43 words from adept according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of adept

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Definitions and meaning of adept

adept

Etymology

From French adepte, from Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”), the past participle of adipisci (“to attain”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US, adjective) IPA(key): /əˈdɛpt/, /ˈæd.ɛpt/
  • (UK, US, noun) IPA(key): /ˈæd.ɛpt/, /ædˈɛpt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛpt

Adjective

adept (comparative more adept or adepter, superlative most adept or adeptest)

  1. Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:skillful

Antonyms

  • inept

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

adept (plural adepts)

  1. One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient
    adepts in philosophy
    • 1894-95, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure:
      Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:skilled person

Translations

Related terms

References

  • “adept”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • pated, taped

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑˈdɛpt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛpt

Noun

adept m (definite singular adepten, indefinite plural adepter, definite plural adeptene)

  1. an adept (person)

References

  • “adept” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “adept” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”). The adjective is of the same origin, though likely through English adept.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑˈdɛpt/

Noun

adept m (definite singular adepten, indefinite plural adeptar, definite plural adeptane)

  1. an adept, skillful person
  2. an inductee to an order, a secret society or a science
  3. (historical) an alchemist
  4. a very knowledgeable person
  5. (by extension, derogatory) a know-it-all, a self-declared expert
  6. a student of a craft

Adjective

adept (indefinite singular adept, definite singular and plural adepte)

  1. adept (very skilled)

References

  • “adept” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin adeptus. Sense 1 and sense 2 are semantic loans from German Adept and French adepte. First attested in the 18th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.dɛpt/
  • Rhymes: -adɛpt
  • Syllabification: a‧dept

Noun

adept m pers (female equivalent adeptka)

  2. apprentice, trainee; novice (person training in a given field or new in a given field)
    Synonyms: debiutant, początkujący
  4. adept (person with secret information)
  5. (oboslete) alchemist
    Synonym: alchemik

Declension

Collocations

References

Further reading

  • adept in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • adept in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “adept”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎[2]
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “adept”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎[3] (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 7

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French adepte.

Noun

adept m (plural adepți)

  1. follower
  2. disciple

Declension

Swedish

Noun

adept c

  1. a pupil, a student, an apprentice, a disciple

Declension

Synonyms

  • lärjunge

Anagrams

  • petad

Source: wiktionary.org