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What does fact mean? Is fact a Scrabble word?

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Is fact a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word fact is a Scrabble US word. The word fact is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

F4A1C3T1

Is fact a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word fact is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

F4A1C3T1

Is fact a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word fact is a Words With Friends word. The word fact is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

F4A1C4T1

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Valid words made from Fact

You can make 9 words from 'fact' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

4 letters words from 'fact'

FACT 9 

3 letters words from 'fact'

ACT 5AFT 6
CAF 8CAT 5
FAT 6 

2 letters words from 'fact'

AT 2FA 5
TA 2 

All 4 letters words made out of fact

fact afct fcat cfat acft caft fatc aftc ftac tfac atfc tafc fcta cfta ftca tfca ctfa tcfa actf catf atcf tacf ctaf tcaf

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word fact. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in fact.

Definitions and meaning of fact

fact

Etymology

From Old French fact, from Latin factum (“an act, deed, feat, etc.”); also Medieval Latin for "state, condition, circumstance"; neuter of factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”). Old/Middle French later evolved it into faict and fait. Doublet of feat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fækt/
  • Rhymes: -ækt

Noun

fact (countable and uncountable, plural facts)

  1. Something actual as opposed to invented.
  2. Something which is real.
    Gravity is a fact, not a theory.
  3. Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
  4. An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.
  5. Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.
  6. (databases) An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.
  7. (archaic) Action; the realm of action.
  8. (law, obsolete except in set phrases) A wrongful or criminal deed.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:
      She was empassiond at that piteous act, / With zelous enuy of Greekes cruell fact, / Against that nation [...].
  9. (obsolete) A feat or meritorious deed.

Antonyms

  • (Something actual): fiction

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See also

  • value
  • opinion
  • belief

References

  • fact at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • fact in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • fact in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • "Conway: 'Alternative Facts'" Merriam-Webster's Trend Watch Merriam-Webster. 2017.

Interjection

fact

  1. Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one.

Anagrams

  • acft

Source: wiktionary.org
  • something known with certainty.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)