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Is affect a Scrabble word?

Yes, affect is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 14 points in Scrabble.

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  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of affect?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To influence or alter.Examples: "The experience affected me deeply."; "The heat of the sunlight affected the speed of the chemical reaction."; "The climate affected their health and spirits."Synonyms: alter, change, have an effect on, influence, play a role in, play a part intransitive

2. (transitive) To move to emotion.Examples: "He was deeply affected by the tragic ending of the play."; "A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles."Synonyms: move, touchtransitive

3. (transitive, pathology) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).Examples: "Hepatitis affects the liver."Synonyms: attack, harm, infecttransitive

4. (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.Examples: "men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty"archaictransitive

5. (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.Examples: "The drops of every fluid affect a round figure."archaictransitive

6. (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.Examples: "One of the domestics was affected to his special service."archaictransitive

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of.Examples: "to affect ignorance"; "to affect a British accent"; "He managed to affect a smile despite feeling quite miserable."Synonyms: fake, simulate, feigntransitive

2. (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain.Examples: "Duke.[...] I loue the people, But doe not like to stage me to their eyes: Though it doe well, I doe not rellish well Their lowd applause, and Aues vehement: Nor doe I thinke the man of safe discretion That do's affect it."; "For it is believed, that he never was married, affecting and embracing Chastity through the whole course of his Life."; "Wiſe are thy words, and glad I would obey, / But this proud man affects imperial ſway."obsoletetransitive

3. (transitive, rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.Examples: "There is a Lady in Verona heere Whom I affect: but she is nice, and coy, And naught esteemes my aged eloquence."; "From that day forth she gan to him affect, / And daily more her favour to augment […]"; "A young gentlewoman in Basil was married[…]to an ancient man against her will, whom she could not affect; she was continually melancholy, and pined away for grief […]"raretransitive

4. (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.Examples: "Amongst humane conditions this one is very common, that we are rather pleased with strange things then with our owne; we love changes, affect alterations, and like innovations."; "Go, let him have a table by himself, for he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for’t, indeed."; "1825, William Hazlitt, “On the Conduct of life: or Advice to a schoolboy” in Table-Talk Volume II, Paris: A. & W. Galignani, p. 284, Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great."obsoletetransitive

noun (English)

1. (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.Examples: "if we are afraid of robbers in a dream, the robbers are certainly imaginary, but the fear is real. This draws our attention to the fact that the development of affects [translating Affectentwicklung] in dreams is not amenable to the judgement we make of the rest of the dream-content [...]."; "A third study demonstrated that the effects of self-affirmation on self-regulated performance were not due to positive affect."

2. (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.obsolete

3. (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.obsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "affect"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "affect"?

Scrabble
14 points
A1
F4
F4
E1
C3
T1
Words With Friends
15 points
A1
F4
F4
E1
C4
T1

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