Impute
6 lettersverbmoderateUpdated June 2026
Definition
To assign or attribute a quality, fault, or action to a person or cause.
“It would be unfair to impute malicious motives to what was clearly an honest oversight.”
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im·pute
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Wordle
Ends in -UTE and starts with IMP, with three vowels across six letters
Scrabble
Worth 10 points, the -UTE ending allows natural hooks to IMPUTED or IMPUTES
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