How many points in Scrabble is efficient worth? efficient how many points in Words With Friends? What does efficient mean? Get all these answers on this page.
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Is efficient a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word efficient is a Scrabble US word. The word efficient is worth 17 points in Scrabble:
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Is efficient a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word efficient is a Scrabble UK word and has 17 points:
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Is efficient a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word efficient is a Words With Friends word. The word efficient is worth 19 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 88 words from efficient according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
1398, “making,” from Old French, from Latin efficientem, nominative efficiēns, participle of efficere (“work out, accomplish”) (see effect). Meaning “productive, skilled” is from 1787. Efficiency apartment is first recorded 1930, American English.
efficient (comparative more efficient, superlative most efficient)
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary from 1913 still lists efficient and effective as synonyms, but all major dictionaries now show that these words now only have different meanings in careful use. Use of both for the other meaning is however widespread enough that Longman's Exam Dictionary, for example, finds it necessary to proscribe the use of one for the other with several examples at each entry and provides the following summary:
efficient (plural efficients)
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{{rfdef}}.Borrowed from Latin efficientem.
efficient (feminine efficiente, masculine plural efficients, feminine plural efficientes)
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