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Is illuminate a Scrabble word?

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

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Is illuminate a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Yes. The word illuminate is a Words With Friends word. The word illuminate is worth 17 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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10-letter words (1 found)

ILLUMINATE,

9-letter words (2 found)

MULTILANE,MULTILINE,

8-letter words (3 found)

ILLUMINE,MINUTIAE,MINUTIAL,

7-letter words (21 found)

AILMENT,ALIMENT,ALUMINE,ALUNITE,INTIMAE,INTIMAL,INUTILE,LIMELIT,LIMINAL,LUMENAL,LUMINAL,MANILLE,MILLINE,MINIATE,MINUTIA,MULLEIN,MULLITE,NAUTILI,NUTMEAL,TAILLIE,UILLEAN,

6-letter words (64 found)

ALLIUM,ALUMIN,ALUMNI,AMULET,ANELLI,AUNTIE,ELUANT,ENTAIL,ETAMIN,ILLITE,ILLUME,INMATE,INTIMA,INTIME,LAMENT,LENTIL,LIENAL,LIMAIL,LIMINA,LIMULI,LINEAL,LINTEL,LINTIE,LUITEN,LUMINA,LUMINE,LUNATE,LUTEAL,LUTEIN,MALINE,MALLEI,MALLET,MANITU,MANTEL,MANTLE,MENIAL,MENTAL,MILIEU,MILLET,MILLIE,MINUET,MINUTE,MULETA,MULLEN,MULLET,MUNITE,MUTINE,NIELLI,TAILLE,TAMEIN,TAMINE,TELIAL,TELIUM,TELLIN,TENAIL,TINEAL,TUILLE,ULTIMA,UNITAL,UNLEAL,UNLIME,UNTAME,UNTEAM,UNTILE,

5-letter words (68 found)

ALIEN,ALINE,AMENT,AMINE,ANILE,ANIME,ANIMI,AUMIL,ELAIN,ELINT,EMAIL,ENLIT,ENTIA,ILEAL,ILEUM,ILIAL,ILIUM,IMINE,INLET,INTEL,INTIL,INULA,LATEN,LEANT,LEMAN,LENTI,LIANE,LIMAN,LIMEN,LIMIT,LINUM,LITAI,LUMEN,LUNET,LUTEA,MAILE,MAILL,MANET,MANUL,MATIN,MEANT,MEINT,MENTA,METAL,MIAUL,MILIA,MILLE,MINAE,MULIE,MULLA,NULLA,TAMIN,TELIA,TENIA,TINEA,TUILE,TUINA,TULLE,ULEMA,ULMIN,ULNAE,UNITE,UNLET,UNLIT,UNMET,UNTIE,UNTIL,UTILE,

4-letter words (127 found)

AINE,AITU,ALIT,ALME,ALUM,AMEN,AMIE,AMIN,ANIL,ANTE,ANTI,AUNE,AUNT,EINA,ELAN,EMIT,ETNA,ETUI,ILEA,ILIA,INIA,INTI,ITEM,LAIN,LAME,LANE,LANT,LATE,LATI,LATU,LEAL,LEAM,LEAN,LEAT,LENT,LIEN,LIEU,LILT,LIMA,LIME,LIMN,LINE,LINT,LITE,LITU,LUIT,LUMA,LUNA,LUNE,LUNT,LUTE,MAIL,MAIN,MALE,MALI,MALL,MALT,MANE,MANI,MATE,MAUL,MAUN,MAUT,MEAL,MEAN,MEAT,MEIN,MELA,MELL,MELT,MENT,MENU,META,MIEN,MILE,MILL,MILT,MINA,MINE,MINI,MINT,MITE,MUIL,MULE,MULL,MUNI,MUNT,MUTE,MUTI,NAIL,NAME,NAMU,NEAL,NEAT,NEMA,NEUM,NILL,NITE,NULL,TAEL,TAIL,TAIN,TALE,TALI,TALL,TAME,TANE,TEAL,TEAM,TEIL,TEIN,TELA,TELL,TIAN,TILE,TILL,TIME,TINA,TINE,TUAN,TULE,TUNA,TUNE,ULAN,ULNA,UNAI,UNIT,

3-letter words (77 found)

AIL,AIM,AIN,AIT,ALE,ALL,ALT,ALU,AME,AMI,AMU,ANE,ANI,ANT,ATE,AUE,EAN,EAT,EAU,ELL,ELM,ELT,EMU,ETA,ILL,ITA,LAM,LAT,LEA,LEI,LET,LEU,LIE,LIN,LIT,LUM,LUN,MAE,MAL,MAN,MAT,MEL,MEN,MET,MEU,MIL,MNA,MUN,MUT,NAE,NAM,NAT,NET,NIE,NIL,NIM,NIT,NUT,TAE,TAI,TAM,TAN,TAU,TEA,TEL,TEN,TIE,TIL,TIN,TUI,TUM,TUN,ULE,UME,UNI,UTA,UTE,

2-letter words (28 found)

AE,AI,AL,AM,AN,AT,EA,EL,EM,EN,ET,IN,IT,LA,LI,MA,ME,MI,MU,NA,NE,NU,TA,TE,TI,UM,UN,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 392 words from illuminate according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of illuminate

illuminate

Etymology

From Middle English illuminaten, borrowed from Latin illūminātum, supine of illūminō (“lighten, light up, show off”), from in + lūminō (“light up”), from lūmen (“light”). Cognate with Old English lȳman (“to glow, shine”). More at leam.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪˈl(j)umɪneɪt/, /ɪˈl(j)uməneɪt/ (verb)
  • (verb)
  • IPA(key): /ɪˈl(j)umɪnət/ (noun, adjective)

Verb

illuminate (third-person singular simple present illuminates, present participle illuminating, simple past and past participle illuminated)

  1. (transitive) To shine light on something.
  2. (transitive) To decorate something with lights.
  3. (transitive, figurative) To clarify or make something understandable.
  4. (transitive) To decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs.
  5. (transitive, figurative) To make spectacular.
  6. (intransitive) To glow; to light up.
    • 2011/2012, "Spectrum", written by Florence Welch and Paul Epworth, performed by Florence and the Machine, released on the album Ceremonials (2011):
      Say my name / and every color illuminates. / We are shining / […]
  7. (intransitive) To be exposed to light.
  8. (transitive, military) To direct a radar beam toward.

Synonyms

  • (shine light on something): belight, enlighten, illumine; See also Thesaurus:illuminate
  • (decorate something with lights): See also Thesaurus:decorate
  • (make something understandable): bring home, clarify, elucidate, explicitize, sort out, straighten out
  • (decorate the page of a manuscript book): illustrate, quill; See also Thesaurus:decorate
  • (to glow; to light up): gleam, illumine, shine; See also Thesaurus:shine

Derived terms

  • transilluminate
  • illuminator

Related terms

  • luminous
  • lumens

Translations

Noun

illuminate (plural illuminates)

  1. Someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.

Adjective

illuminate (comparative more illuminate, superlative most illuminate)

  1. (obsolete) enlightened
    • February 28 1630, Joseph Hall, The Hypocrite
      do ye see an illuminate elder of the anabaptists rapt in divine ecstasies?

Interlingua

Participle

illuminate

  1. past participle of illuminar

Italian

Adjective

illuminate f pl

  1. feminine plural of illuminato

Verb

illuminate

  1. inflection of illuminare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative
    3. feminine plural past participle

Anagrams

  • alluminite

Latin

Participle

illūmināte

  1. vocative masculine singular of illūminātus

References

  • “illuminate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • illuminate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Source: wiktionary.org