efficient: meaning and words from its letters
9 letters · 17 letter points · starts with E · ends with T
Meaning of efficient
adj
Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
Example: An efficient process would automate all the routine work.
Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input.
Example: The motor is only 20% efficient at that temperature.
Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent).
Example: Ownership, maintenance, or use of the automobile need not be the direct and efficient cause of the injury sustained
- proscribed
effective, efficacious
Source: Wiktionary — efficient.
noun
- obsolete
A cause; something that causes an effect.
Listed forms: efficients.
Source: Wiktionary — efficient.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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adjective
able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is efficient in our word lists?
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Letter-value score of efficient
E(1) + F(4) + F(4) + I(1) + C(3) + I(1) + E(1) + N(1) + T(1) = 17 points.
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Anagrams of efficient
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from efficient
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