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Is erect a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word erect is a Scrabble US word. The word erect is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is erect a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word erect is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

E1R1E1C3T1

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5-letter words (2 found)

ERECT,TERCE,

4-letter words (7 found)

CERE,CERT,CETE,CREE,RETE,TEER,TREE,

3-letter words (7 found)

CEE,ERE,REC,REE,RET,TEC,TEE,

2-letter words (5 found)

EE,ER,ET,RE,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 22 words from erect according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of erect

erect

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪˈɹɛkt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛkt
  • Hyphenation: erect

Etymology 1

From Middle English erect, a borrowing from Latin ērectus (“upright”), past participle of ērigō (“raise, set up”), from ē- (“out”) + regō (“to direct, keep straight, guide”).

Adjective

erect (comparative more erect, superlative most erect)

  1. Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
  2. (of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
    Synonyms: hard, stiff
  3. (of a person) Having an erect penis or clitoris.
    Synonyms: hard, stiff
  4. (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
  5. (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
  6. Watchful; alert.
  7. (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of “rigid; standing out perpendicularly”): flaccid
Derived terms
Related terms
  • erect-crested penguin
  • erectile
  • erection
  • erigible
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English erecten, from the adjective (see above).

Verb

erect (third-person singular simple present erects, present participle erecting, simple past and past participle erected)

  1. (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
  2. (transitive) To cause to stand up or out.
  3. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
    1. (intransitive, aviation, of a gyroscopic attitude indicator) To spin up and align to vertical.
  4. (transitive) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
    • , Preface
      I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.
  5. (transitive) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
  6. (transitive, astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
  7. (intransitive) To enter a state of physiological erection.
  8. (transitive) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
  9. (transitive) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
    • 1812, Arthur Collins & Sir Egerton Brydges, Peerage of England, F.C. and J. Rivington et al, page 330:
      In 1686, he was appointed one of the Commissioners in the new ecclesiastical commission erected by King James, and was proud of that honour.
Synonyms
  • build
Derived terms
Translations

Anagrams

  • -crete, Crete, recte, terce

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin erectus.

Adjective

erect m or n (feminine singular erectă, masculine plural erecți, feminine and neuter plural erecte)

  1. erect

Declension


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