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Yes. The word deduce is a Scrabble US word. The word deduce is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (3 found)

DEDUCE,DEUCED,EDUCED,

5-letter words (3 found)

CEDED,DEUCE,EDUCE,

4-letter words (6 found)

CEDE,CUED,DEED,DUCE,DUDE,DUED,

3-letter words (7 found)

CEE,CUD,CUE,DEE,DUD,DUE,ECU,

2-letter words (3 found)

DE,ED,EE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 23 words from deduce according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of deduce

deduce

Etymology

From Late Middle English deducen (“to demonstrate, prove, show; to argue, infer; to bring, lead; to turn (something) to a use; to deduct”), borrowed from Latin dēdūcere, the present active infinitive of dēdūcō (“to lead or bring out or away; to accompany, conduct, escort; (figuratively) to derive, discover, deduce”); from dē- (prefix meaning ‘from, away from’) + dūcere (the present active infinitive of dūcō (“to conduct, guide, lead; to draw, pull; to consider, regard, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to lead; to draw, pull”)).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˈdjuːs/, (UK non-RP also) /dɪˈdʒuːs/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /dɪˈdus/, /də-/, (rarely) /-ˈdjus/
  • Rhymes: -uːs
  • Hyphenation: de‧duce
  • Homophone: dejuice (yod-coalescence)

Verb

deduce (third-person singular simple present deduces, present participle deducing, simple past and past participle deduced)

  1. (transitive) To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.
    Synonyms: conclude, infer
    Antonym: induce
  2. (transitive, uncommon) To examine, explain, or record (something) in an orderly manner.
  3. (transitive, archaic) To obtain (something) from some source; to derive.
  4. (intransitive, archaic) To be derived or obtained from some source.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To take away (something); to deduct, to subtract (something).
  6. (transitive, obsolete, based on the word’s Latin etymon) To lead (something) forth.

Usage notes

  • Regarding sense 1 (“to reach (a conclusion)”):
    • For example, from the premises “all good people believe in the tooth fairy” and “Jimmy does not believe in the tooth fairy”, we deduce the conclusion “Jimmy is not a good person”. This particular form of deduction is called a syllogism. But note that in this instance we may reach a false conclusion by correct deduction from a false premise.
    • It is the nature of corollaries that they are usually deducible.

Conjugation

Alternative forms

  • diduce (obsolete)

Derived terms

  • deducement (obsolete)
  • deducible
  • deducibility
  • deducing (noun)
  • deducive (rare)
  • nondeducible
  • undeducible

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References

Further reading

  • deductive reasoning on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • deuced, educed

Galician

Verb

deduce

  1. inflection of deducir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Verb

deduce

  1. third-person singular present indicative of dedurre

Latin

Verb

dēdūce

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of dēdūcō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin deducere, French déduire, with conjugation based on duce.

Verb

a deduce (third-person singular present deduce, past participle dedus) 3rd conj.

  1. (transitive) to infer, deduce (to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence)

Conjugation

Spanish

Verb

deduce

  1. inflection of deducir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org