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Is debate a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word debate is a Scrabble US word. The word debate is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is debate a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word debate is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

DEBATE,

5-letter words (4 found)

BATED,BETED,TEADE,TEAED,

4-letter words (17 found)

ABED,ABET,BADE,BATE,BEAD,BEAT,BEDE,BEET,BETA,BETE,DATE,DEBE,DEBT,DEET,TAED,TEAD,TEED,

3-letter words (19 found)

ATE,BAD,BAE,BAT,BED,BEE,BET,DAB,DAE,DEB,DEE,EAT,ETA,TAB,TAD,TAE,TEA,TED,TEE,

2-letter words (14 found)

AB,AD,AE,AT,BA,BE,DA,DE,EA,ED,EE,ET,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 56 words from debate according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of debate

debate

Etymology

From Middle English debaten, from Old French debatre (“to fight, contend, debate, also literally to beat down”), from Romanic desbattere, from Latin dis- (“apart, in different directions”) + battuere (“to beat, to fence”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈbeɪt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /dɪˈbeɪt/, /di-/, /də-/
  • Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

debate (countable and uncountable, plural debates)

  1. An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
  2. An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
  3. (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
  4. (frequently in the French form débat) A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.
  5. (obsolete) Strife, discord.

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Translations

Verb

debate (third-person singular simple present debates, present participle debating, simple past and past participle debated)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, reciprocal) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena. [from 14th c.]
  2. (obsolete, intransitive, reciprocal) To fight. [14th–17th c.]
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
  4. (transitive) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide

Derived terms

  • debater
  • mass debate

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Translations

Further reading

  • “debate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “debate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • beated, bed tea, bed-tea, betaed

Albanian

Noun

debate m pl

  1. indefinite plural of debat

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Deverbal from debater or borrowed from French débat.

Noun

debate m (plural debates)

  1. debate
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:debate.

Etymology 2

Verb

debate

  1. inflection of debater:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:debate.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deˈbate/ [d̪eˈβ̞a.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ate
  • Syllabification: de‧ba‧te

Etymology 1

Deverbal from debatir.

Noun

debate m (plural debates)

  1. debate
  2. discussion
    Synonym: discusión

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

debate

  1. inflection of debatir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish debate.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deˈbate/, [dɛˈba.tɛ]
  • Hyphenation: de‧ba‧te

Noun

debate (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜊᜆᜒ)

  1. debate; heated discussion
    Synonyms: pagtatalo, pagkakatwiranan, pangangatwiranan

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