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Is excite a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word excite is a Scrabble US word. The word excite is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

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Is excite a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word excite is a Scrabble UK word and has 15 points:

E1X8C3I1T1E1

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

EXCITE,

4-letter words (6 found)

CETE,CITE,ETIC,EXEC,EXIT,TICE,

3-letter words (9 found)

CEE,CIT,ICE,TEC,TEE,TEX,TIC,TIE,TIX,

2-letter words (7 found)

EE,ET,EX,IT,TE,TI,XI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 24 words from excite according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of excite

excite

Etymology

From Middle English exciten, from Old French exciter, from Latin excitare (“call out, call forth, arouse, wake up, stimulate”), frequentative of exciere (“call out, arouse, excite”), from ex (“out”) + ciere (“call, summon”). See cite and compare to accite, concite, incite.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ĭk-sītʹ, IPA(key): /ɪkˈsaɪt/
  • Rhymes: -aɪt
  • Hyphenation: ex‧cite

Verb

excite (third-person singular simple present excites, present participle exciting, simple past and past participle excited)

  1. (transitive) To stir the emotions of.
  2. (transitive) To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
  3. (transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
  4. To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.

Conjugation

Antonyms

  • relax, calm

Derived terms

  • self-excite

Related terms

  • excitement
  • excitation

Translations

Further reading

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

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛk.sit/

Verb

excite

  1. inflection of exciter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ekˈskiː.te/, [ɛkˈs̠kiːt̪ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈʃi.te/, [ekˈʃiːt̪e]

Verb

excīte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of exciō

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Verb

excite

  1. inflection of excitar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [eksˈt͡ʃite]

Verb

excite

  1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of excita

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /eɡsˈθite/ [eɣ̞sˈθi.t̪e]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /eɡˈsite/ [eɣ̞ˈsi.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ite
  • Syllabification: ex‧ci‧te

Verb

excite

  1. inflection of excitar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org