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Is bote a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word bote is a Scrabble US word. The word bote is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is bote a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word bote is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

B3O1T1E1

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You can make 14 words from 'bote' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.


4 letters words from 'bote'

BOET 6BOTE 6

3 letters words from 'bote'

BET 5BOT 5
OBE 5TOE 3

2 letters words from 'bote'

BE 4BO 4
ET 2OB 4
OE 2TE 2
TO 2 

All 4 letters words made out of bote

bote obte btoe tboe otbe tobe boet obet beot ebot oebt eobt bteo tbeo beto ebto tebo etbo oteb toeb oetb eotb teob etob

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word bote. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in bote.

Definitions and meaning of bote

bote

Alternative forms

  • bot

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Middle English bōte (“advantage, benefit, profit; relief, salvation; atonement, amends, expiation; cure”), from Old English bōt (“help, relief, advantage, remedy; compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance”), from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”). Doublet of boot (inherited from the same Middle English word).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /bəʊt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /boʊt/

Noun

bote (plural botes) (law, historical)

  1. The atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
  2. A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
  3. A right to take wood from property not one's own.

Usage notes

  • Often used to form compounds indicating a right to take wood only for a specific purpose.

Synonyms

  • estovers

Derived terms

References

  • Middle English Dictionary

Anagrams

  • -to-be, Beto, Tebo, Tobe, beot, boet, to-be, tobe

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʊə.tə/

Noun

bote

  1. plural of boot

Bikol Central

Etymology

Clipping of botelya

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bo.tɛ/

Noun

bote

  1. bottle

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish bote (“boat”), from Middle English bot, from Old English bāt, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: bo‧te

Noun

bote

  1. a lifeboat

Khumi Chin

Verb

bote

  1. to hit
  2. to beat

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bōt, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō.

Alternative forms

  • boot, bot, boote

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /boːt/

Noun

bote (plural botes or boten)

  2. Help, advantage, benefit; that which is good, helpful, or relieving:
    • Heo lufeden bi wurten, bi moren, and bi rote; nas þer nan oðer boten. — Layamon's Brut, 1275
    1. Saving or extrication from distress or danger; something or someone which provides it.
    2. Salvation (release or rescue from eternal punishment), or one who acts as salvation
    3. An avenue of escape; a method through which one can release themself from danger.
    4. Utility, usefulness; that which is useful, expedient, or suitable.
    5. A reprieve or the offering of forgiveness from punishment or danger.
  3. Activity done as redress or recompense for (one's or another's) sins; expiation.
    • Iesu […] For synne þat hath my soule bounde, Let þi blessed blood be my bote. — Iesu þat art hevene
  4. Mirth, gladness; the feeling or emotion of being happy and joyful.
  5. The quelling, curing, or expurgation of disease or sickness; medical recovery.
  6. (rare) Recompense, amends or compensation; behaviour in return for one's wrongs.
  7. (rare) An extra, augment, or addition; something to boot.
  8. (rare) A medicinal or pharmaceutical cure or remedy; something used to quell disease.
  9. (rare) Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.
    • Þey shulde..do bote to brugges þat to-broke were. — Pier's Plowman, 1400
Related terms
  • boteles
  • boten
  • botnen
Descendants
  • English: boot
  • → English: bote (also from Old English bōt)
  • Scots: bute, buit

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French bote (Modern French botte); ultimately of Germanic origin.

Alternative forms

  • (Northern ME) but, buyt, bute
  • boot, bot, boote

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /boːt/

Noun

bote (plural botes)

  2. A boot or similar item of footwear; a shoe with a cover for part of the leg.
  3. (rare) A cover for the leg.
Derived terms
  • boten
Descendants
  • English: boot
    • → Scots: boot
  • Scots: bute, buit
References
  • “bọ̄te, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

From Old English bāt.

Noun

bote

  1. Alternative form of bot (“boat”)

Etymology 4

From Old English bōtian.

Verb

bote

  1. Alternative form of boten (“to resolve”)

Old French

Etymology 1

Noun

bote f (oblique plural botes, nominative singular bote, nominative plural botes)

  1. boot (specifically, a high-sided leather shoe that also covers the bottom of the leg)

Descendants

  • → English: boot
  • French: botte

Etymology 2

Latin buttis.

Noun

bote f (oblique plural botes, nominative singular bote, nominative plural botes)

  1. cask; barrel

Etymology 3

See bat.

Noun

bote m (oblique plural botes, nominative singular botes, nominative plural bote)

  1. Alternative form of bat

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bote, supplement)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.tɨ/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃi/
  • (South Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.te/

Etymology 1

From Old French bot, from Middle English bot, from Old English bāt.

Noun

bote m (plural botes)

  1. rowing boat (boat propelled only by oars)
  2. (by extension) any small boat
    Synonym: barquinho

Etymology 2

From botar (“to put; to lay”).

Noun

bote m (plural botes)

  1. (biology) an animal’s sudden thrust forward towards its prey
  2. (figuratively) a sudden attack
  3. (Brazil, soccer) a goalkeeper’s jump to catch the ball
Derived terms
  • errar o bote

Verb

bote

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of botar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of botar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of botar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of botar

Spanish

Etymology

From Middle English bot, from Old English bāt (“boat”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbo.te/
  • Rhymes: -ote

Noun

bote m (plural botes)

  1. boat, dinghy
    Synonym: barco
  2. vessel, can, canister, container, jar, tin
    Synonym: recipiente
  3. jackpot, pot, pool (large cash prize)

Derived terms

  • a bote pronto
  • bote salvavidas
  • chupar del bote
  • darse el bote
  • de bote
  • de bote y voleo
  • de bote en bote
  • en el bote
  • bote de remos (“rowboat”)
  • bote de premios (“prize pool”)

Descendants

  • → Cebuano: bote

Verb

bote

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of botar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of botar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of botar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of botar.

Tagalog

Etymology

Clipping of botelya

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bo.tɛ/

Noun

bote

  1. bottle

Synonyms

  • botelya (dated)

Venetian

Noun

bote

  1. plural of bota

Yogad

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bote.

Noun

bote

  1. bottle

Source: wiktionary.org
  • compensation for injury or damage to property.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)
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