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Is dictator a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dictator is a Scrabble US word. The word dictator is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is dictator a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dictator is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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8-letter words (1 found)

DICTATOR,

7-letter words (4 found)

ARCTOID,CAROTID,CITATOR,RICOTTA,

6-letter words (9 found)

ADROIT,AORTIC,CARDIO,COTTAR,COTTID,DACOIT,OTARID,TRIACT,TRICOT,

5-letter words (37 found)

ACRID,ACTOR,ARIOT,AROID,ARTIC,ATTIC,CAIRD,CARDI,COATI,CORIA,COTTA,DARIC,DATTO,DIACT,DICOT,DICTA,DIOTA,DITTO,DORIC,DRACO,DROIT,OCTAD,OTTAR,RADIO,RATIO,TACIT,TARDO,TAROC,TAROT,TORIC,TORTA,TRACT,TRAIT,TRIAC,TRIAD,TROAD,TROAT,

4-letter words (69 found)

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3-letter words (51 found)

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2-letter words (16 found)

AD,AI,AR,AT,DA,DI,DO,ID,IO,IT,OD,OI,OR,TA,TI,TO,

You can make 187 words from dictator according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of dictator

dictator

Alternative forms

  • dictatour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin dictātor (“a chief magistrate”), from dictō (“dictate, prescribe”), from dīcō (“say, speak”). By surface analysis, dictate +‎ -or, literally “one who dictates”.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪkˈteɪtə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈdɪkteɪtəɹ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

dictator (plural dictators)

  1. A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government.
  2. (history) A magistrate without colleague in republican Ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war.
  3. A tyrannical boss or authority figure.
  4. Misspelling of dictater.

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Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dictātor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌdɪkˈtaː.tɔr/
  • Hyphenation: dic‧ta‧tor
  • Rhymes: -aːtɔr

Noun

dictator m (plural dictatoren or dictators, diminutive dictatortje n)

  1. dictator (tyrant, despot)
    Synonyms: despoot, dwingeland, tiran
  2. (historical) dictator (Roman magistrate with expanded powers)

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Latin

Etymology

From dictō (“I dictate”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /dikˈtaː.tor/, [d̪ɪkˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dikˈta.tor/, [d̪ikˈt̪äːt̪or]

Noun

dictātor m (genitive dictātōris); third declension

  1. an elected chief magistrate
  2. one who dictates.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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References

  • “dictator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “dictator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dictator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • dictator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “dictator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “dictator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dictateur, Latin dictātor. Equivalent to dicta +‎ -tor.

Noun

dictator m (plural dictatori)

  1. dictator

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