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Yes. The word refute is a Scrabble US word. The word refute is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (2 found)

FEUTRE,REFUTE,

5-letter words (2 found)

FREET,TERFE,

4-letter words (15 found)

FEER,FEET,FERE,FETE,FREE,FRET,REEF,REFT,RETE,TEER,TERF,TREE,TREF,TRUE,TURF,

3-letter words (17 found)

EFT,ERE,ERF,FEE,FER,FET,FEU,FUR,REE,REF,RET,RUE,RUT,TEE,TEF,URE,UTE,

2-letter words (10 found)

EE,EF,ER,ET,FE,FU,RE,TE,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 47 words from refute according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of refute

refute

Etymology

From Latin refūtō (“refute, repudiate”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, US): enPR: rə-fyo͞ot, IPA(key): /ɹɪˈfjuːt/, /ɹəˈfjut/
  • Hyphenation: re‧fute
  • Rhymes: -uːt

Verb

refute (third-person singular simple present refutes, present participle refuting, simple past and past participle refuted)

  1. (transitive) To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
  2. (transitive, proscribed) To deny the truth or correctness of (something).

Usage notes

  • The second meaning of refute (“to deny the truth of”) is proscribed as erroneous by some (compare Merriam Webster,1994). An alternative term with such a meaning is repudiate, which means to reject or refuse to acknowledge, but without the implication of justification. However, this distinction does not exist in the original Latin refūtō (“oppose, resist, rebut”), which can apply to both senses.
  • Refute is also often confused with rebut; a rebuttal, in formal debate terms, is a counter-refutation, and it also has a specific legal sense, though like refutation, the word has taken on the informal and disputed meaning of denial.

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • (prove (something) to be false): debunk, disprove, rebut
  • (deny the truth or correctness): deny, gainsay, rebut, reject, repudiate

Antonyms

  • (prove (something) to be false): demonstrate, prove
  • (deny the truth or correctness): accept, embrace

Derived terms

  • self-refute

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • Fuerte, feuter, feutre

Galician

Verb

refute

  1. inflection of refutar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • refeut, reffute, refuit, refut, refutt, refuyt, refyte

Etymology

From Old French refuite, from refuir (“to flee”). Compare refuge.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɛˈfiu̯t(ə)/

Noun

refute (uncountable)

  1. refuge (state of protection or comfort)
  2. refuge (place of protection or comfort)
  3. A protector or comforter.

References

  • “refūt(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Portuguese

Verb

refute

  1. inflection of refutar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

refute

  1. inflection of refutar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org