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Is impact a Scrabble word?

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

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Is impact a Scrabble UK word?

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

IMPACT,

5-letter words (1 found)

CAMPI,

4-letter words (9 found)

CAMI,CAMP,CAPI,MICA,PACT,PICA,PIMA,PITA,TAMP,

3-letter words (27 found)

ACT,AIM,AIT,AMI,AMP,APT,CAM,CAP,CAT,CIT,IMP,ITA,MAC,MAP,MAT,MIC,PAC,PAM,PAT,PIA,PIC,PIT,TAI,TAM,TAP,TIC,TIP,

2-letter words (10 found)

AI,AM,AT,IT,MA,MI,PA,PI,TA,TI,

You can make 48 words from impact according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of impact

impact

Etymology

Attested since the 17th century, from Latin impāctus.

Pronunciation

  • (noun): enPR: imʹpăkt, IPA(key): /ˈɪmpækt/
  • (verb): enPR: im-păktʹ, IPA(key): /ɪmˈpækt/
    • Rhymes: -ækt

Noun

impact (countable and uncountable, plural impacts)

  1. The striking of one body against another; collision.
  2. The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
  3. (chiefly medicine) A forced impinging.
  4. (figurative, proscribed) A significant or strong influence or effect.

Usage notes

  • Adjectives often applied to "impact": social, political, physical, positive, negative, good, bad, beneficial, harmful, significant, great, important, strong, big, small, real, huge, likely, actual, potential, devastating, disastrous, true, primary.
  • The adposition generally used with "impact" is "on" (such as in last example in section above)
  • There are some who find the figurative noun sense problematic, with a low threshold for labeling such use as overuse (cliché). In defensive editing, the solution is to replace the figurative noun sense with effect and the verb sense with affect, which nearly always produces an acceptable result. (Rarely, a phrase such as "the impact of late effects" is better stetted to avoid "the effect of [...] effects".)

Derived terms

Related terms

  • impinge

Translations

Verb

impact (third-person singular simple present impacts, present participle impacting, simple past and past participle impacted)

  1. (transitive) To collide or strike, the act of impinging.
    When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.
  2. (transitive) To compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together.
    The footprints of birds do not impact the soil in the way those of dinosaurs do.
  3. (transitive, figurative, proscribed) To significantly or strongly influence or affect; to have an impact on.
    I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule.
  4. (transitive, rare) To stamp or impress onto something.
    Ideas impacted on the mind.

Usage notes

Some authorities object to the verb sense of impact meaning "to significantly or strongly influence or affect; to have an impact on". Although most verbification instances in English draw no prescriptive attention, a few do, including this one. To avoid controversy, one can replace the verb sense with affect, which nearly always produces an acceptable result. See also the usage note for the noun sense.

Derived terms

  • impaction
  • impactor

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin, see above.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛ̃.pakt/

Noun

impact m (plural impacts)

  1. (literally or figuratively) impact

Further reading

  • “impact”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French impact, from Latin impactus.

Noun

impact n (plural impacturi)

  1. impact

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org