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Is elective a Scrabble word?

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

E1L1E1C3T1I1V4E1

Is elective a Scrabble UK word?

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

E1L1E1C3T1I1V4E1

Is elective a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word elective is a Words With Friends word. The word elective is worth 16 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

E1L2E1C4T1I1V5E1

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8-letter words (2 found)

CLEVEITE,ELECTIVE,

7-letter words (1 found)

EVICTEE,

6-letter words (2 found)

CLEEVE,LEVITE,

5-letter words (9 found)

CIVET,CLEVE,ELECT,ELITE,EVICT,EVITE,LEVEE,LIEVE,TELIC,

4-letter words (26 found)

CEIL,CELT,CETE,CIEL,CITE,CIVE,CLIT,ETIC,EVET,EVIL,LEET,LEVE,LICE,LITE,LIVE,TEEL,TEIL,TELE,TICE,TILE,VEIL,VELE,VICE,VILE,VITE,VLEI,

3-letter words (22 found)

CEE,CEL,CIT,EEL,ELT,EVE,ICE,LEE,LEI,LET,LEV,LIE,LIT,TEC,TEE,TEL,TIC,TIE,TIL,VEE,VET,VIE,

2-letter words (7 found)

EE,EL,ET,IT,LI,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

Definitions and meaning of elective

elective

Etymology

elect +‎ -ive

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪˈlɛktɪv/
  • Rhymes: -ɛktɪv

Adjective

elective (comparative more elective, superlative most elective)

  2. Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
    Synonym: electoral
    Antonyms: appointive, hereditary
    • 1697, John Dryden, The Works of Virgil […] translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, dedicatory preface to the Marquess of Normanby,[3]
      For his Conscience could not but whisper to the Arbitrary Monarch, that the Kings of Rome were at first Elective, and Govern’d not without a Senate:
    • 1896, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, “The South African Question” in Speeches and Writings of M. K. Gandhi, Madras: G.A. Natesan, 3rd edition, 1922, p. 6,[7]
      [The bill] says that no natives of countries (not of European origin) which have not hitherto possessed elective representative institutions […] shall be placed on the voters roll […]
  4. Open to choice; freely chosen; (also, usually) unnecessary; minor.
    Synonyms: discretionary, optional, voluntary
    Antonyms: compulsory, mandatory, obligatory, required, involuntary
    • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son, and T. Cadell, Volume 5, Book 9, Chapter 8, pp. 160-161,[9]
      “You know not then,” said Cecilia, in a faint voice, “my inability to comply?”
      “Your ability, or inability, I presume are elective?”
      “Oh no!—my power is lost!—my fortune itself is gone!”
  6. (US health care system, technical) Scheduled and nonemergent (regardless of whether necessary or unnecessary and whether minor or serious).
    Antonyms: emergent, unscheduled

Usage notes

In the US health care system, the technical sense of this adjective often causes confusion, because the usual sense implies the concepts of "unnecessary", "minor", or "skippable" but the technical sense applies to many procedures that are necessary to continuance of health and prevention of death.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • elect
  • election

Translations

Noun

elective (plural electives)

  1. Something that is an option or may be freely chosen, especially a course of study.

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Anagrams

  • cleveite

Source: wiktionary.org