collocate
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 9
/ˈkɒləkeɪt/
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/ˈkɒləkeɪt/ · /ˈkɑləkeɪt/ (US) · /ˈkɒləkət/ · /ˈkɑləkət/ (US)
Definition of collocate
5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
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verb
- (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
- To arrange or occur side by side.
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(obsolete, transitive)To set or place or station in the same place as something else.
“to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles”
“that S. Peter will have transferred from his episcopate of Antioch to Rome, and in Rome the Church with the episcopate, the primacy likewise itself, and himself the rock of faith and the Church to have been constituted and collocated”
noun
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A component word of a collocation; a word that collocates with another.
“A list of collocations to accompany the SVL words providing their important lexico-grammatical associations could therefore be a useful supplementary resource. Thus, we took an extra step not present in previously developed academic wordlists and created lists of each word's discipline-specific collocates.”
adj
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(not-comparable, obsolete)Set; placed.
“of that creature you must take the parts wherein that virtue chiefly is collocate”
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.
Words you can make from collocate
113 playable · top: COLOCATE (12 pts)
Best play colocate 12 points7-letter words
2 words6-letter words
6 words5-letter words
13 words4-letter words
46 words- CECA 8 pts
- COCA 8 pts
- COCO 8 pts
- ALEC 6 pts
- CALL 6 pts
- CALO 6 pts
- CATE 6 pts
- CELL 6 pts
- CELT 6 pts
- CLOT 6 pts
- COAL 6 pts
- COAT 6 pts
- COLA 6 pts
- COLE 6 pts
- COLT 6 pts
- COOL 6 pts
- COOT 6 pts
- COTE 6 pts
- LACE 6 pts
- LOCA 6 pts
- LOCO 6 pts
- TACE 6 pts
- TACO 6 pts
- TALC 6 pts
- TOCO 6 pts
- ALOE 4 pts
- ALTO 4 pts
- LATE 4 pts
- LEAL 4 pts
- LOOT 4 pts
- LOTA 4 pts
- LOTO 4 pts
- OLEA 4 pts
- OLEO 4 pts
- OLLA 4 pts
- TAEL 4 pts
- TALE 4 pts
- TALL 4 pts
- TEAL 4 pts
- TELA 4 pts
- TELL 4 pts
- TOEA 4 pts
- TOLA 4 pts
- TOLE 4 pts
- TOLL 4 pts
- TOOL 4 pts
3-letter words
34 words- ACE 5 pts
- ACT 5 pts
- CAL 5 pts
- CAT 5 pts
- CEL 5 pts
- COL 5 pts
- COO 5 pts
- COT 5 pts
- ECO 5 pts
- LAC 5 pts
- LOC 5 pts
- OCA 5 pts
- TEC 5 pts
- ALE 3 pts
- ALL 3 pts
- ALT 3 pts
- ATE 3 pts
- EAT 3 pts
- ELL 3 pts
- ETA 3 pts
- LAT 3 pts
- LEA 3 pts
- LET 3 pts
- LOO 3 pts
- LOT 3 pts
- OAT 3 pts
- OLE 3 pts
- OOT 3 pts
- TAE 3 pts
- TAO 3 pts
- TEA 3 pts
- TEL 3 pts
- TOE 3 pts
- TOO 3 pts
2-letter words
11 wordsHooks
2 extensions · 2 back
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