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Is mandate a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word mandate is a Scrabble US word. The word mandate is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is mandate a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word mandate is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

MANDATE,

6-letter words (6 found)

ADNATE,AMATED,AMENTA,ANADEM,MAENAD,TANDEM,

5-letter words (21 found)

ADMAN,ADMEN,AMATE,AMEND,AMENT,ANTAE,ANTED,ATMAN,DAMAN,DEMAN,MAAED,MANAT,MANED,MANET,MANTA,MATED,MEANT,MENAD,MENTA,NAMED,TAMED,

4-letter words (35 found)

AMEN,ANTA,ANTE,ATMA,DAME,DAMN,DANT,DATA,DATE,DEAN,DENT,ETNA,MADE,MANA,MAND,MANE,MATE,MEAD,MEAN,MEAT,MEND,MENT,META,NAAM,NADA,NAME,NEAT,NEMA,TAED,TAME,TANA,TANE,TEAD,TEAM,TEND,

3-letter words (36 found)

AMA,AME,ANA,AND,ANE,ANT,ATE,DAE,DAM,DAN,DEN,EAN,EAT,END,ETA,MAA,MAD,MAE,MAN,MAT,MED,MEN,MET,MNA,NAE,NAM,NAT,NED,NET,TAD,TAE,TAM,TAN,TEA,TED,TEN,

2-letter words (19 found)

AA,AD,AE,AM,AN,AT,DA,DE,EA,ED,EM,EN,ET,MA,ME,NA,NE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 119 words from mandate according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of mandate

mandate

Etymology 1

Noun is borrowed from Latin mandātum (“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”), neut of. mandātus, past participle of mandāre (“to commit to one's charge, order, command, commission, literally to put into one's hands”), from manus (“hand”) + dare (“to put”). Compare command, commend, demand, remand.

The verb is from the noun.

Pronunciation

Noun
  • IPA(key): /ˈmændeɪt/
Verb
  • IPA(key): /ˈmændeɪt/, /mænˈdeɪt/
  • Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

mandate (plural mandates)

  1. An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
    Synonyms: compulsion, obligation
  2. (politics) The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
  3. (Canada) A period during which a government is in power.
  4. (historical) An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I.
    1. (historical) Such a territory.
Derived terms
  • dual mandate
  • mandate fraud
Translations

Verb

mandate (third-person singular simple present mandates, present participle mandating, simple past and past participle mandated)

  1. (Discuss(+) this sense) To authorize.
  2. To make mandatory.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From man +‎ date.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmæn.deɪt/

Noun

mandate (plural mandates)

  1. (uncommon) Alternative form of man date: a date between two men.
    • 2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 3:
      Moss: Oh, he's long gone, although Roy's got a mandate with him.
      Roy: It is not a mandate. I am not a man-woman. We are not married. I am not your wife!

References

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

French

Pronunciation

  • Homophones: mandatent, mandates

Verb

mandate

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

Italian

Noun

mandate f

  1. plural of mandata

Verb

mandate

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

Anagrams

  • Damante, damante

Latin

Participle

mandāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of mandātus

Spanish

Verb

mandate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of mandar combined with te
  2. inflection of mandatar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org