Scrabble & Words with friends points
- separate is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 10
- separate is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 10
- separate is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 11
Definition of separate
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race (verb)
Synonyms
- discriminate
- single out
- act as a barrier between; stand between (verb)
Synonyms
- divide
- have the connection undone; having become separate (adjective)
Synonyms
- disjoined
- arrange or order by classes or categories (verb)
Synonyms
- assort
- class
- classify
- sort
- sort out
- become separated into pieces or fragments (verb)
Synonyms
- break
- come apart
- fall apart
- split up
- separate into parts or portions (verb)
Synonyms
- carve up
- dissever
- divide
- split
- split up
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways (verb)
Examples
- The couple separated after 25 years of marriage
Synonyms
- break
- break up
- part
- split
- split up
- force, take, or pull apart (verb)
Examples
- He separated the fighting children
Synonyms
- disunite
- divide
- part
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork (verb)
Synonyms
- branch
- fork
- furcate
- ramify
- make a division or separation (verb)
Synonyms
- divide
- go one's own way; move apart (verb)
Examples
- The friends separated after the party
Synonyms
- part
- split
- standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything (adjective)
Examples
- a house with a separate garage
Synonyms
- freestanding
- mark as different (verb)
Synonyms
- differentiate
- distinguish
- secern
- secernate
- severalise
- severalize
- tell
- tell apart
- come apart (verb)
Examples
- The two pieces that we had glued separated
Synonyms
- divide
- part
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication (noun)
Synonyms
- offprint
- reprint
- a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments (noun)
- divide into components or constituents (verb)
- independent; not united or joint (adjective)
Examples
- a problem consisting of two separate issues
- they went their separate ways
- formed a separate church
- separated according to race, sex, class, or religion (adjective)
Examples
- separate but equal
- girls and boys in separate classes
See definition of separate in Merriam Webster