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Is obviate a Scrabble word?

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

O1B3V4I1A1T1E1

Is obviate a Scrabble UK word?

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

O1B3V4I1A1T1E1

Is obviate a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word obviate is a Words With Friends word. The word obviate is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

O1B4V5I1A1T1E1

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7-letter words (1 found)

OBVIATE,

6-letter words (2 found)

BOATIE,BOVATE,

5-letter words (5 found)

ABOVE,BIOTA,BOITE,OVATE,VITAE,

4-letter words (22 found)

ABET,BAIT,BATE,BEAT,BETA,BITE,BITO,BOAT,BOET,BOTA,BOTE,IOTA,OBIA,OBIT,TABI,TOEA,VETO,VIAE,VIBE,VITA,VITE,VOTE,

3-letter words (37 found)

ABO,AIT,ATE,AVE,AVO,BAE,BAO,BAT,BET,BIO,BIT,BOA,BOI,BOT,EAT,ETA,EVO,ITA,OAT,OBA,OBE,OBI,OVA,TAB,TAE,TAI,TAO,TAV,TEA,TIE,TOE,VAE,VAT,VET,VIA,VIE,VOE,

2-letter words (19 found)

AB,AE,AI,AT,BA,BE,BI,BO,EA,ET,IO,IT,OB,OE,OI,TA,TE,TI,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 87 words from obviate according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of obviate

obviate

Etymology

From Latin obviāre (“to block, to hinder”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒb.viˌeɪt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔb.viˌeɪt/
  • Hyphenation: ob‧vi‧ate

Verb

obviate (third-person singular simple present obviates, present participle obviating, simple past and past participle obviated)

  1. (transitive) To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required).
  2. (transitive) To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation).

Usage notes

  • Garner's Modern American Usage (2009) notes that phrases like obviate the necessity or obviate the need are sometimes considered redundant, but "these phrases are not redundancies, for the true sense of obviate the necessity is 'to prevent the necessity (from arising),' hence to make unnecessary."

Translations

Noun

obviate (plural obviates)

  1. (linguistics) Synonym of obviative

Adjective

obviate (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Synonym of obviative

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ob.u̯iˈaː.te/, [ɔbu̯iˈäːt̪ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ob.viˈa.te/, [obviˈäːt̪e]

Verb

obviāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of obviō

Spanish

Verb

obviate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of obviar combined with te

Source: wiktionary.org