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Is cate a Scrabble word?

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

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Is cate a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Yes. The word cate is a Words With Friends word. The word cate is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (2 found)

CATE,TACE,

3-letter words (9 found)

ACE,ACT,ATE,CAT,EAT,ETA,TAE,TEA,TEC,

2-letter words (6 found)

AE,AT,EA,ET,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 18 words from cate according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of cate

cate acte ctae tcae atce tace caet acet ceat ecat aect eact ctea tcea ceta ecta teca etca atec taec aetc eatc teac etac

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

Definitions and meaning of cate

cate

Etymology

Aphetized from acate, from Old Northern French acat (“purchase”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /keɪt/
  • Homophone: Kate
  • Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

cate (plural cates)

  1. (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101:
      Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates [translating méz] and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?

Anagrams

  • CETA, acet-, tace

Afar

Etymology

Cognate with Saho xate.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ħaˈte/, [ħʌˈtɛ]
  • Hyphenation: ca‧te

Verb

caté (passive cattiimé)

  1. (transitive) to help

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “cate”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

Asturian

Verb

cate

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of catar

Galician

Verb

cate

  1. inflection of catar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Khumi Chin

Alternative forms

  • chauteh (Khimi Chin)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sa˥.te˧/

Verb

cate

  1. (transitive) to eat

References

  • K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎[1], Payap University, page 86

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.te/, [ˈkät̪ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.te/, [ˈkäːt̪e]

Adjective

cate

  1. vocative masculine singular of catus

References

  • “cate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Noun

cate

  1. (hapax) Alternative form of gate (“gate”)

References

  • “grete-cate”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ati

  • Hyphenation: ca‧te

Verb

cate

  1. inflection of catar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkate/ [ˈka.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ate
  • Syllabification: ca‧te

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Caló caté (“stick”), from Sanskrit काष्ठ (kāṣṭha, “wood”).

Noun

cate m (plural cates)

  1. smack; slap
  2. fail (in an exam)

Etymology 2

Verb

cate

  1. inflection of catar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “cate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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