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Is educate a Scrabble word?

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

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Is educate a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word educate is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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Is educate a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word educate is a Words With Friends word. The word educate is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

EDUCATE,

5-letter words (11 found)

ACTED,ACUTE,CADEE,CADET,DEUCE,DUCAT,EDUCE,EDUCT,ETUDE,TEADE,TEAED,

4-letter words (19 found)

ACED,CADE,CATE,CEDE,CETE,CUED,CUTE,DACE,DATE,DAUT,DEET,DUCE,DUCT,DUET,ECAD,TACE,TAED,TEAD,TEED,

3-letter words (26 found)

ACE,ACT,ATE,AUE,CAD,CAT,CEE,CUD,CUE,CUT,DAE,DEE,DUE,EAT,EAU,ECU,ETA,TAD,TAE,TAU,TEA,TEC,TED,TEE,UTA,UTE,

2-letter words (12 found)

AD,AE,AT,DA,DE,EA,ED,EE,ET,TA,TE,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 70 words from educate according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of educate

educate

Alternative forms

  • (generally jocular) educamate
  • (generally jocular) edumacate

Etymology

From Latin educatus, past participle of educare (“to "bring up or rise up or train or mould or nourish" (a child, physically or mentally), rear, educate, train (a person in learning or art), nourish, support, or produce (plants or animals)”), frequentative of educere, past participle eductus (“to "bring out or lead out or draw out or rear" (a child, usually with reference to bodily nurture or support, while educare refers more frequently to the mind)”), from e (“out”) + ducere (“to lead, draw”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛd.jʊˌkeɪt/, /ˈɛd͡ʒ.ʊˌkeɪt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛd͡ʒ.əˌkeɪt/, /ˈɛd͡ʒ.ʊˌkeɪt/
  • (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈed͡ʒ.ɘˌkæet/
  • Hyphenation: ed‧u‧cate

Verb

educate (third-person singular simple present educates, present participle educating, simple past and past participle educated)

  1. (transitive) To instruct or train.

Synonyms

  • instruct
  • teach

Antonyms

  • ignorize

Derived terms

  • co-educate
  • educating (uncommon adjectival form)
  • overeducate
  • reeducate
  • self-educate
  • undereducate

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Translations

Further reading

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

Italian

Adjective

educate f pl

  1. feminine plural of educato

Verb

educate

  1. inflection of educare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person plural imperative
    3. feminine plural past participle

Latin

Verb

ēducāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēducō

Participle

ēducāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of ēducātus

Spanish

Verb

educate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of educar combined with te

Source: wiktionary.org