How many points in Scrabble is believe worth? believe how many points in Words With Friends? What does believe mean? Get all these answers on this page.
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Is believe a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word believe is a Scrabble US word. The word believe is worth 12 points in Scrabble:
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Is believe a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word believe is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:
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Is believe a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word believe is a Words With Friends word. The word believe is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 35 words from believe according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
From Middle English beleven, bileven, from Old English belīefan (“to believe”), from Proto-West Germanic *bilaubijan (“to believe”), equivalent to be- + leave (“to give leave or permission to, permit, allow, grant”). Cognate with Scots beleve (“to believe”), Middle Low German belö̂ven (“to believe”), Middle High German belouben (“to believe”).
A related term in Old English was ġelīefan (“to be dear to; believe, trust”), from Proto-West Germanic *galaubijan (“to have faith, believe”), from Proto-Germanic *galaubijaną. Compare also Old English ġelēafa (“belief, faith, confidence, trust”), Old English lēof ("dear, valued, beloved, pleasant, agreeable" > English lief). Related also to North Frisian leauwjen (“to believe”), West Frisian leauwe (“to believe”), Dutch geloven (“to believe”), German glauben (“to believe”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌽 (galaubjan, “to hold dear, valuable, or satisfactory, approve of, believe”).
The prepositionally transitive senses with in are a semantic loan from Latin crēdō in aliquem / aliquid.
believe (third-person singular simple present believes, present participle believing, simple past and past participle believed)
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