inflect
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
/ɪnˈflɛkt/
Definition of inflect
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (transitive)To cause to curve inwards.
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verb
- (transitive)To cause to curve inwards.
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(transitive)To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
“The actress has a great skill of being able to inflect her voice to any situation.”
- (transitive)To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
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(intransitive)To be varied in the form to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
“In Latin, adjectives and nouns inflect a lot, but inflection is minimally found in Modern English.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin īnflectō, from in- (“in”) + flectō (“to bend”).
Words you can make from inflect
84 playable · top: INFECT (11 pts)
Best play infect 11 points6-letter words
3 words5-letter words
13 words4-letter words
30 words- CLEF 9 pts
- FICE 9 pts
- FLIC 9 pts
- FELT 7 pts
- FILE 7 pts
- FINE 7 pts
- FLIT 7 pts
- LEFT 7 pts
- LIEF 7 pts
- LIFE 7 pts
- LIFT 7 pts
- NEIF 7 pts
- CEIL 6 pts
- CELT 6 pts
- CENT 6 pts
- CINE 6 pts
- CITE 6 pts
- CLIT 6 pts
- ETIC 6 pts
- LICE 6 pts
- NICE 6 pts
- LENT 4 pts
- LIEN 4 pts
- LINE 4 pts
- LINT 4 pts
- LITE 4 pts
- NITE 4 pts
- TEIN 4 pts
- TILE 4 pts
- TINE 4 pts
3-letter words
25 words2-letter words
12 wordsHooks
1 extension · 1 back
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