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Is commute a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word commute is a Scrabble US word. The word commute is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is commute a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word commute is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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Is commute a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word commute is a Words With Friends word. The word commute is worth 17 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

COMMUTE,

5-letter words (2 found)

COMET,COMTE,

4-letter words (12 found)

COME,COMM,COTE,CUTE,MEMO,MEOU,MOME,MOTE,MOTU,MOUE,MUTE,TOME,

3-letter words (27 found)

COT,CUE,CUM,CUT,ECO,ECU,EMO,EMU,MEM,MET,MEU,MOC,MOE,MOM,MOT,MOU,MUM,MUT,OUT,TEC,TOC,TOE,TOM,TUM,UME,UMM,UTE,

2-letter words (13 found)

EM,ET,ME,MM,MO,MU,OE,OM,OU,TE,TO,UM,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 56 words from commute according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of commute

commute

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˈmjuːt/
  • Rhymes: -uːt

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin commūtō.

Verb

commute (third-person singular simple present commutes, present participle commuting, simple past and past participle commuted)

  1. To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen
    1. (transitive, finance, law) To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.
    2. (transitive, law, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
    3. (transitive, insurance, pensions) To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash
    4. (intransitive, obsolete) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;
  2. (intransitive, mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
Derived terms
  • commutative
  • commutation
Translations

Etymology 2

From commutation ticket, a pass on a railroad, streetcar line, etc. that permitted multiple rides over a period of time, eg, a month, for a single, commuted payment.

Noun

commute (plural commutes)

  2. A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.
  3. The route, time or distance of that journey.
Translations

Verb

commute (third-person singular simple present commutes, present participle commuting, simple past and past participle commuted)

  1. (intransitive, US, UK, Canada) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
  2. (intransitive, Philippines) To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.
  3. (intransitive) To journey, to make a journey
    • 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)[1]:
      By one estimate, vultures either residing in or commuting into the Serengeti ecosystem during the annual migration—when 1.3 million white-bearded wildebeests shuffle between Kenya and Tanzania—historically consumed more meat than all mammalian carnivores in the Serengeti combined.
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Derived terms

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “commute”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

French

Pronunciation

  • Homophones: commutent, commutes

Verb

commute

  1. inflection of commuter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org