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Is adjacent a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word adjacent is a Scrabble US word. The word adjacent is worth 18 points in Scrabble:

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Is adjacent a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word adjacent is a Scrabble UK word and has 18 points:

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8-letter words (1 found)

ADJACENT,

6-letter words (6 found)

ADNATE,CADENT,CANTED,CATENA,DECANT,JACENT,

5-letter words (12 found)

ACETA,ACNED,ACTED,ANTAE,ANTED,CAAED,CADET,CANED,DANCE,DECAN,ENACT,TACAN,

4-letter words (31 found)

ACED,ACNE,ACTA,ANCE,ANTA,ANTE,CADE,CANE,CANT,CATE,CENT,DACE,DANT,DATA,DATE,DEAN,DENT,ECAD,ETNA,JADE,JANE,JEAN,JEAT,NADA,NEAT,TACE,TAED,TANA,TANE,TEAD,TEND,

3-letter words (31 found)

ACE,ACT,ANA,AND,ANE,ANT,ATE,CAA,CAD,CAN,CAT,DAE,DAN,DEN,EAN,EAT,END,ETA,JET,NAE,NAT,NED,NET,TAD,TAE,TAJ,TAN,TEA,TEC,TED,TEN,

2-letter words (16 found)

AA,AD,AE,AN,AT,DA,DE,EA,ED,EN,ET,JA,NA,NE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 98 words from adjacent according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of adjacent

adjacent

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“I lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“I lie down”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/

Adjective

adjacent (not comparable)

  1. Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
    Synonyms: abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, near
    Antonyms: apart, distant, nonadjacent
  2. Just before, after, or facing.
  3. (figuratively, postpositive) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

adjacent (plural adjacents)

  1. Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.

Preposition

adjacent

  1. Next to; beside.
  2. (figuratively) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

Usage notes

This preposition is usually used with the word to, i.e., "adjacent to". However, in the U.S., adjacent is sometimes used on its own.

References

  • Bromwich, Jonah Engel (2019 July 16) “Why Is Everything ‘Adjacent’ Now?”, in The New York Times‎[4], retrieved July 26, 2019

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiacentem. Doublet of eina.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ə.d͡ʒəˈsen]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [ə.d͡ʒəˈsent]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [a.d͡ʒaˈsent]

Adjective

adjacent m or f (masculine and feminine plural adjacents)

  1. adjacent (lying next to)

Further reading

  • “adjacent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “adjacent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “adjacent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “adjacent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiacentem, present active participle of adiaceō (“adjoin, border”). Doublet of aise.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.dʒa.sɑ̃/

Adjective

adjacent (feminine adjacente, masculine plural adjacents, feminine plural adjacentes)

  1. adjacent

Further reading

  • “adjacent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

adjacent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of adjaceō

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacēntem, present active participle of adiaceō (“adjoin, border”).

Adjective

adjacent m (feminine singular adjacenta, masculine plural adjacents, feminine plural adjacentas)

  1. adjacent (lying next to)

Polish

Noun

adjacent m pers

  1. Pre-1936 spelling of adiacent.

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org