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Yes. The word quadrate is a Scrabble US word. The word quadrate is worth 18 points in Scrabble:

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Is quadrate a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word quadrate is a Scrabble UK word and has 18 points:

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8-letter words (1 found)

QUADRATE,

7-letter words (2 found)

AURATED,QUADRAT,

6-letter words (5 found)

ADRATE,AURATE,DATURA,QUARTE,QUATRE,

5-letter words (16 found)

AQUAE,AREAD,AURAE,DATER,DERAT,QUARE,QUART,QUATE,RATED,REATA,RUEDA,TARED,TRADE,TREAD,TRUED,URATE,

4-letter words (38 found)

AQUA,AREA,ARED,ARET,ATUA,AURA,DARE,DART,DATA,DATE,DAUR,DAUT,DEAR,DRAT,DUAR,DUET,DURA,DURE,EARD,QUAD,QUAT,RADE,RATA,RATE,RATU,READ,RUDE,RUED,TAED,TARA,TARE,TEAD,TEAR,TRAD,TRUE,TURD,URDE,UREA,

3-letter words (32 found)

ARD,ARE,ART,ATE,AUA,AUE,DAE,DUE,EAR,EAT,EAU,ERA,ETA,QAT,QUA,RAD,RAT,RED,RET,RUD,RUE,RUT,TAD,TAE,TAR,TAU,TEA,TED,URD,URE,UTA,UTE,

2-letter words (16 found)

AA,AD,AE,AR,AT,DA,DE,EA,ED,ER,ET,RE,TA,TE,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 111 words from quadrate according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of quadrate

quadrate

Alternative forms

  • quadrat (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English quadrat, quadrate, from Latin quadrātus (“square”), past participle of quadrō (“to make four-cornered, square, put in order, intransitive be square”), from quadra (“a square”), later quadrus (“square”), from quattuor (“four”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkwɒd.ɹət/, /ˈkwɒdˌɹeɪt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkwɑd.ɹət/, /ˈkwɑdˌɹeɪt/

Adjective

quadrate (comparative more quadrate, superlative most quadrate)

  1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
  2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
    • 1646-72, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, book 4, ch. 12:
      The number of Ten hath been as highly extolled, as containing even, odd, long, plain, quadrate and cubical numbers.
  3. (archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
  4. (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English quadrat, quadrate, from Latin quadrātum. Doublet of quadrat; compare also quadrant (“square or quadrangle”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkwɒd.ɹət/, /ˈkwɒdˌɹeɪt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkwɑd.ɹət/, /ˈkwɑdˌɹeɪt/

Noun

quadrate (plural quadrates)

  1. (geometry) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
  2. (astrology) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
    Synonym: square
  3. (anatomy) The quadrate bone.

Etymology 3

From Latin quadrātus, past participle of quadrō.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kwɒdˈɹeɪt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /kwɑdˈɹeɪt/
  • Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

quadrate (third-person singular simple present quadrates, present participle quadrating, simple past and past participle quadrated)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
  2. (archaic, transitive) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
  3. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To square.
    quadrating the circle
  4. (archaic, transitive) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).
    not quadrating with American ideas of right, justice and reason

References

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • arquated

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kwaˈdra.te/
  • Rhymes: -ate
  • Hyphenation: qua‧drà‧te

Adjective

quadrate

  1. feminine plural of quadrato

Latin

Etymology

From quadrō (“make square”), from quadrus (“square, four-sided”), from quattuor (“four”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /kʷaˈdraː.teː/, [kʷäˈd̪räːt̪eː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwaˈdra.te/, [kwäˈd̪räːt̪e]

Adverb

quadrātē (not comparable)

  1. fourfold, four times

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References

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

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