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Is commit a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word commit is a Scrabble US word. The word commit is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

C3O1M3M3I1T1

Is commit a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word commit is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

C3O1M3M3I1T1

Is commit a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word commit is a Words With Friends word. The word commit is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

C4O1M4M4I1T1

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6-letter words (1 found)

COMMIT,

4-letter words (9 found)

CITO,COIT,COMM,MICO,MOIT,MOMI,MOTI,OMIT,OTIC,

3-letter words (11 found)

CIT,COT,MIC,MIM,MOC,MOI,MOM,MOT,TIC,TOC,TOM,

2-letter words (9 found)

IO,IT,MI,MM,MO,OI,OM,TI,TO,

You can make 30 words from commit according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of commit

commit

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin committō (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com- (“together”) + mittō (“to send”). See mission.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˈmɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɪt
  • Hyphenation: com‧mit

Verb

commit (third-person singular simple present commits, present participle committing, simple past and past participle committed)

  1. (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
  2. (transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
  3. (transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
  4. (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
  5. (transitive, intransitive) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
    • 8 March, 1769, Junius, letter to the Duke of Grafton
      You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without committing the honour of your sovereign.
  6. (transitive, computing, databases) To make a set of changes permanent.
  7. (transitive, programming) To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
  8. (intransitive, obsolete) To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
  9. (transitive, obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
  10. (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
  11. (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
  12. (euphemistic) die from suicide.

Synonyms

  • (forcibly treat): 5150 (US slang); section (UK slang)
  • (integrate new revisions into the public version of a file): check in

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • → German: committen

Translations

Noun

commit (plural commits)

  1. (computing, databases) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
  2. (programming) The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
  3. (informal, sports, chiefly US) A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.

Synonyms

  • (submission of source code): check-in

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → German: Commit
  • → Russian: комми́т (kommít)

Translations

See also

  • push
  • stage

References

Further reading

  • “commit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “commit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ.mi/

Verb

commit

  1. third-person singular past historic of commettre

Source: wiktionary.org