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Is tact a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word tact is a Scrabble US word. The word tact is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is tact a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word tact is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

T1A1C3T1

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Yes. The word tact is a Words With Friends word. The word tact is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

TACT,

3-letter words (4 found)

ACT,ATT,CAT,TAT,

2-letter words (2 found)

AT,TA,

You can make 7 words from tact according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tact

tact

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tækt/
  • Rhymes: -ækt

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French tact, following a semantic shift from earlier tact (“sense of touch; feeling”), borrowed from Latin tāctus (“touched”). The borrowing was likely influenced by earlier English tact (“sense of touch; feeling”), which was a parallel borrowing directly from the Latin.

Noun

tact (uncountable)

  1. Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing. [from early 19th c.]
    Synonyms: sensitivity, consideration, diplomacy, tactfulness
  2. Propriety; manners (etiquette).
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Directly borrowed from Latin tāctus.

Noun

tact (countable and uncountable, plural tacts)

  1. The sense of touch; feeling. [from 1650s]
  2. (music) The stroke in beating time.
  3. (psychology) A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).
Translations

Verb

tact (third-person singular simple present tacts, present participle tacting, simple past and past participle tacted)

  1. (psychology) To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant).

Etymology 3

Noun

tact (plural tacts)

  1. (slang) Clipping of tactic.

References

Further reading

  • tact on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “tact”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tact”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

See also

  • tact time

Anagrams

  • Catt

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French tact.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑkt/
  • Hyphenation: tact
  • Rhymes: -ɑkt

Noun

tact m (uncountable)

  1. tact, discernment

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tactus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /takt/

Noun

tact m (plural tacts)

  1. tact
  2. sense of touch

Related terms

  • tactile

Descendants

  • → Dutch: tact
  • → English: tact (“sensitive mental touch”)
  • → Greek: τακτ (takt)
  • → Polish: takt
  • → Turkish: takt

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Takt or French tact.

Noun

tact n (plural tacturi)

  1. tact

Declension


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