Effete is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 22 anagrams from letters in effete (eeefft).
1615-25; Latin effēta exhausted from bearing, equivalent to ef- ef- + fēta having brought forth, feminine past participle of lost v.; see fetus
She scorned the suggestion that a bath-room be added; an effete idea. Only look at the theological quiddities of effete scholasticism. Some critics have made the same sorts of arguments about the remote and effete president. Unlike their effete northeastern shadows, country boys rarely fade away. They call us rough, and we try to get even by terming them effete. No mistaking you for anything but what you are—the sickly product of an effete civilisation. It sees test scores as effete and irrelevant, like the older privileges of birth. When I went to basketball camp, the boys from the real West Virginia would make fun of us effete Morgantown kids. The courtiers were an effete and in some cases epicene crew. In fine, it will become old and effete, no less truly than the individual.Examples for effete