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   Per·mute

   /pərˈmyo͞ot/

   

   verb

   • 1. submit to a process of alteration, rearrangement, or permutation: technical "we wish to permute the order of the bytes"

   Word Origin late Middle English (also in the sense ‘interchange’): from Latin permutare ‘change completely’, from per- ‘through, completely’ + mutare ‘to change’.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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   • E

     1

   • R

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   • M

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   • U

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   • T

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   • E

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