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Is vote a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word vote is a Scrabble US word. The word vote is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is vote a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word vote is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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4-letter words (2 found)

VETO,VOTE,

3-letter words (4 found)

EVO,TOE,VET,VOE,

2-letter words (4 found)

ET,OE,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 11 words from vote according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of vote

vote ovte vtoe tvoe otve tove voet ovet veot evot oevt eovt vteo tveo veto evto tevo etvo otev toev oetv eotv teov etov

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word vote. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in vote.

Definitions and meaning of vote

vote

Etymology

From Latin vōtum, a form of voveō (“I vow”) (cognate with Ancient Greek εὔχομαι (eúkhomai, “to vow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ-. The word is thus a doublet of vow.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vəʊt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /voʊt/
  • Rhymes: -əʊt

Noun

vote (plural votes)

  1. a formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute.
  2. an act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot
    • Directive (EU) 2017/828 amending Directive 2007/36/EC, recital 10:
  3. (obsolete) an ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer
    • 1633, Philip Massinger, “The Guardian”, in Three New Playes; viz. The Bashful Lover, The Guardian, The Very Woman. As They have been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friers, by His Late Majesties Servants, with Great Applause, London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, published 1655, OCLC 15553475; republished as “The Guardian. A Comical History. As It hath been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friars, by His Late Majesty's Servants, with Great Applause, 1655.”, in Thomas Coxeter, editor, The Works of Philip Massinger. Volume the Fourth. Containing, The Guardian. A Very Woman. The Old Law. The City Madam. And Poems on Several Occasions, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Davies, in Russel-street, Covent-Garden, 1761, OCLC 6847259, Act V, scene i, page 71:
      Jol[ante]. In you, Sir, / I live; and when, or by the Courſe of Nature, / Or Violence you muſt fall, the End of my / Devotions is, that one and the ſame Hour / May make us fit for Heaven. // Server. I join with you / In my votes that way: […]
  4. (obsolete) a formalized petition or request
  5. (obsolete) any judgment of intellect leading to a formal opinion, a point of view
  6. any judgment of intellect leading not only to a formal opinion but also to a particular choice in a legally relevant measure, a point of view as published

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Derived terms

Translations

Verb

vote (third-person singular simple present votes, present participle voting, simple past and past participle voted)

  1. (intransitive) To cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election.
  2. (transitive) To choose or grant by means of a vote, or by general consent.

Conjugation

Hyponyms

  • vote in
  • vote out
  • vote down

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • elect
  • nominate

Descendants

  • Tok Pisin: vot
    • → Rotokas: votu

Further reading

  • Vote and Voting in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
  • Voting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Tove, to've, veto

Asturian

Verb

vote

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of votar

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English vote. Doublet of vœu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɔt/
  • Homophones: votent, votes
  • Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

vote m (plural votes)

  1. vote

Derived terms

  • bulletin de vote
  • bureau de vote
  • droit de vote
  • vote à main levée

Related terms

  • votant

Verb

vote

  1. inflection of voter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • veto, véto

Galician

Verb

vote

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

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɔ.te/
  • Rhymes: -ɔte
  • Hyphenation: vò‧te

Adjective

vote

  1. (literary or popular Tuscan) feminine plural of voto (“empty”)

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯oː.te/, [ˈu̯oːt̪ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvo.te/, [ˈvɔːt̪e]

Participle

vōte

  1. vocative masculine singular of vōtus

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English vote, from Latin vōtum, from voveō, vovēre (“vow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ewegʷʰ-.

Noun

vote m (plural votes)

  1. (Jersey) vote

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: vo‧te

Verb

vote

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbote/ [ˈbo.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ote
  • Syllabification: vo‧te

Verb

vote

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

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