exactitude
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 20
- Words With Friends
- 22
- Letters
- 10
Definition of exactitude
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)Attention to small details; accuracy.
“[W]hen making a passage from one feeding-ground to another, the sperm whales, guided by some infallible instinct—say, rather, secret intelligence from the Deity—mostly swim in veins, as they are called; continuing their way along a given ocean-line with such undeviating exactitude, that no ship ever sailed her course, by any chart, with one tithe of such marvellous precision.”
“He paced stiffly, looking with extreme exactitude at Lingard's face; looking neither to the right nor to the left but at the face only, as if there was nothing in the world but those features familiar and dreaded; […]”
“In Newspeak, euphony outweighed every consideration other than exactitude of meaning.”
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Etymology
From French exactitude, from exact, from Latin exactus, perfect passive participle of exigō (“demand, claim as due" or "measure by a standard, weigh, test”), from ex (“out”) + agō (“drive”).
Words you can make from exactitude
160 playable · top: EXACTED (17 pts)
Best play exacted 17 points7-letter words
6 words6-letter words
17 words5-letter words
26 words- EXACT 14 pts
- DEXIE 13 pts
- EXUDE 13 pts
- TAXED 13 pts
- AXITE 12 pts
- ACTED 8 pts
- CADET 8 pts
- CITED 8 pts
- DEICE 8 pts
- DEUCE 8 pts
- DICTA 8 pts
- DUCAT 8 pts
- EDICT 8 pts
- EDUCE 8 pts
- EDUCT 8 pts
- ACUTE 7 pts
- ATTIC 7 pts
- CUTIE 7 pts
- TACET 7 pts
- TACIT 7 pts
- TECTA 7 pts
- ADIEU 6 pts
- ATTED 6 pts
- AUDIT 6 pts
- ETUDE 6 pts
- TUTEE 5 pts
4-letter words
48 words- EXEC 13 pts
- AXED 12 pts
- EXED 12 pts
- EAUX 11 pts
- EXIT 11 pts
- TAXI 11 pts
- TEXT 11 pts
- ACED 7 pts
- ACID 7 pts
- CADE 7 pts
- CADI 7 pts
- CAID 7 pts
- CEDE 7 pts
- CEDI 7 pts
- CUED 7 pts
- DACE 7 pts
- DICE 7 pts
- DUCE 7 pts
- DUCI 7 pts
- DUCT 7 pts
- ICED 7 pts
- CATE 6 pts
- CETE 6 pts
- CITE 6 pts
- CUTE 6 pts
- ETIC 6 pts
- TACE 6 pts
- TACT 6 pts
- ADIT 5 pts
- AIDE 5 pts
- DATE 5 pts
- DAUT 5 pts
- DEET 5 pts
- DIET 5 pts
- DITA 5 pts
- DITE 5 pts
- DUET 5 pts
- DUIT 5 pts
- EDIT 5 pts
- EIDE 5 pts
- IDEA 5 pts
- TEED 5 pts
- TIDE 5 pts
- TIED 5 pts
- ETUI 4 pts
- TATE 4 pts
- TAUT 4 pts
- TEAT 4 pts
3-letter words
44 words- DEX 11 pts
- XED 11 pts
- AXE 10 pts
- TAX 10 pts
- TIX 10 pts
- TUX 10 pts
- CAD 6 pts
- CUD 6 pts
- ACE 5 pts
- ACT 5 pts
- CAT 5 pts
- CEE 5 pts
- CUE 5 pts
- CUT 5 pts
- ECU 5 pts
- ICE 5 pts
- TEC 5 pts
- TIC 5 pts
- AID 4 pts
- DEE 4 pts
- DIE 4 pts
- DIT 4 pts
- DUE 4 pts
- DUI 4 pts
- TAD 4 pts
- TED 4 pts
- AIT 3 pts
- ATE 3 pts
- ATT 3 pts
- EAT 3 pts
- EAU 3 pts
- ETA 3 pts
- TAE 3 pts
- TAT 3 pts
- TAU 3 pts
- TEA 3 pts
- TEE 3 pts
- TET 3 pts
- TIE 3 pts
- TIT 3 pts
- TUI 3 pts
- TUT 3 pts
- UTA 3 pts
- UTE 3 pts
2-letter words
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