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Is unique a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word unique is a Scrabble US word. The word unique is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

U1N1I1Q10U1E1

Is unique a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word unique is a Scrabble UK word and has 15 points:

U1N1I1Q10U1E1

Is unique a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word unique is a Words With Friends word. The word unique is worth 18 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

U2N2I1Q10U2E1

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6-letter words (1 found)

UNIQUE,

5-letter words (1 found)

QUINE,

4-letter words (1 found)

QUIN,

3-letter words (3 found)

NIE,QIN,UNI,

2-letter words (6 found)

EN,IN,NE,NU,QI,UN,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 13 words from unique according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of unique

unique

Etymology

Borrowed from French unique. Doublet of any.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /juːˈniːk/, /jəˈniːk/
  • Rhymes: -iːk

Adjective

unique (comparative uniquer or more unique, superlative uniquest or most unique)

  1. (not comparable) Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.
    Synonyms: one of a kind, sui generis, singular
  2. Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.
  3. Particular, characteristic.
  4. (sometimes proscribed) Of a rare quality, unusual.

Usage notes

  • The comparative and superlative forms uniquer or more unique and uniquest or most unique, as well as the use of unique with modifiers as in fairly unique and very unique, are sometimes criticised, with the reasoning that either something is unique or it is not. These modified senses of “unique”, however, have been in use since at least as far back as the 18th century, with “unique” taking its common secondary sense of “uncommon, unusual, remarkable”.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • unicity
  • one-of-a-kind
  • inimitable

Translations

Noun

unique (plural uniques)

  1. A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled; one of a kind.

Translations

Further reading

  • “unique”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “unique”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “unique” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ūnicus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /y.nik/
  • Rhymes: -ik

Adjective

unique (plural uniques)

  1. unique
  2. only

Derived terms

Related terms

  • un

Descendants

  • → Danish: unik
  • → Dutch: uniek
    • → Indonesian: unik
  • → English: unique
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: unik
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: unik
  • → Swedish: unik
  • → Turkish: ünik

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org