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Is elucidate a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word elucidate is a Scrabble US word. The word elucidate is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is elucidate a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word elucidate is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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Is elucidate a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word elucidate is a Words With Friends word. The word elucidate is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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9-letter words (1 found)

ELUCIDATE,

8-letter words (2 found)

AEDICULE,DELICATE,

7-letter words (12 found)

AUDITEE,CITADEL,CLAUTED,CLEATED,DELTAIC,DIALECT,DILUTEE,DUCTILE,DULCITE,EDICTAL,EDUCATE,LEUCITE,

6-letter words (32 found)

ACULEI,AEDILE,ATELIC,AUDILE,CAUDLE,CAUTEL,CEDULA,CEILED,CIELED,DACITE,DAUTIE,DECEIT,DECILE,DELATE,DELICE,DELICT,DELTIC,DETAIL,DILATE,DILUTE,DUCTAL,DULCET,ELATED,ELUATE,ELUTED,IDEATE,LUCITE,LUETIC,TAILED,TALCED,TELEDU,TULADI,

5-letter words (74 found)

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4-letter words (113 found)

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3-letter words (69 found)

ACE,ACT,AID,AIL,AIT,ALE,ALT,ALU,ATE,AUE,CAD,CAL,CAT,CEE,CEL,CID,CIT,CUD,CUE,CUT,DAE,DAL,DEE,DEI,DEL,DIE,DIT,DUE,DUI,EAT,EAU,ECU,EEL,ELD,ELT,ETA,ICE,IDE,ITA,LAC,LAD,LAT,LEA,LED,LEE,LEI,LET,LEU,LID,LIE,LIT,LUD,TAD,TAE,TAI,TAU,TEA,TEC,TED,TEE,TEL,TIC,TID,TIE,TIL,TUI,ULE,UTA,UTE,

2-letter words (21 found)

AD,AE,AI,AL,AT,DA,DE,DI,EA,ED,EE,EL,ET,ID,IT,LA,LI,TA,TE,TI,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 325 words from elucidate according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of elucidate

elucidate

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Late Latin ēlūcidātus (“lightened; having been lightened; (figurative) enlightened; having been enlightened”) + English -ate (suffix meaning ‘to act [in the specified manner]’). Ēlūcidātus is the perfect passive participle of ēlūcidō (“to light; (figurative) to enlighten”), from Latin ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + lūcidus (“full of light, bright, shining; clear; (figurative) clear, lucid”) (from lūceō (“to shine; (figurative) to be apparent or evident”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”)) + -ō (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈl(j)uːsɪdeɪt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /əˈlusəˌdeɪt/, /i-/
  • Hyphenation: eluc‧id‧ate

Verb

elucidate (third-person singular simple present elucidates, present participle elucidating, simple past and past participle elucidated) (transitive)

  1. (obsolete) To make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous; also, clear, transparent”).
  2. (figurative) To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.
    Synonyms: explain, explicate
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Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Late Latin ēlūcidātus (“lightened; having been lightened; (figurative) enlightened; having been enlightened”) (see further at etymology 1) + English -ate (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘characterized by [the specified thing]’).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈl(j)uːsɪdət/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /əˈlusəˌdət/, /i-/
  • Hyphenation: eluc‧id‧ate

Adjective

elucidate (comparative more elucidate, superlative most elucidate)

  1. (obsolete) Clear, understandable.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:obvious
    Antonyms: see Thesaurus:opaque

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Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

elucidate

  1. inflection of elucidare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

elucidate f pl

  1. feminine plural of elucidato

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /eː.luː.kiˈdaː.te/, [eːɫ̪uːkɪˈd̪äːt̪ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.lu.t͡ʃiˈda.te/, [elut͡ʃiˈd̪äːt̪e]

Verb

ēlūcidāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēlūcidō

Spanish

Verb

elucidate

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

Source: wiktionary.org