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Is debit a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word debit is a Scrabble US word. The word debit is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is debit a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word debit is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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5-letter words (3 found)

BETID,BIDET,DEBIT,

4-letter words (9 found)

BIDE,BITE,DEBT,DIEB,DIET,DITE,EDIT,TIDE,TIED,

3-letter words (13 found)

BED,BET,BID,BIT,DEB,DEI,DIB,DIE,DIT,IDE,TED,TID,TIE,

2-letter words (10 found)

BE,BI,DE,DI,ED,ET,ID,IT,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 36 words from debit according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of debit

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Definitions and meaning of debit

debit

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French debet, from Latin debitum (“what is owed, a debt”), neuter of debitus, past participle of debere (“to owe”); Doublet of debt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɛb.ɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛbɪt

Noun

debit (countable and uncountable, plural debits)

  1. In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.
  2. A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • debt
  • debitor
  • debenture

Translations

See also

  • credit

Verb

debit (third-person singular simple present debits, present participle debiting, simple past and past participle debited)

  1. To make an entry on the debit side of an account.
  2. To record a receivable in the bookkeeping.

Translations

Adjective

debit (not comparable)

  1. of or relating to process of taking money from an account
  2. of or relating to the debit card function of a debit card rather than its often available credit card function (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Antonyms

  • credit

Derived terms

  • debit card

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • betid, bidet, bited

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdebɪt̚]
  • Hyphenation: dé‧bit

Etymology 1

From Dutch debiet (“discharge, flowrate”), from French débit (“flow, rate of flow, discharge”), from Latin dēbitum (“what is owed, a debt”).

Noun

débit (first-person possessive debitku, second-person possessive debitmu, third-person possessive debitnya)

  1. (hydrology) discharge
  2. (of fluid) flowrate
  3. flow: the movement of a fluid.
    Synonym: aliran

Compounds

Etymology 2

A semantic loan from English debit, from Middle French debet (Modern French débit), from Latin dēbitum (“what is owed, a debt”).

  • Displaced earlier debet, which was loanword from Dutch debet.

Noun

débit (first-person possessive debitku, second-person possessive debitmu, third-person possessive debitnya)

  1. (accounting) debit:
    1. In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.
    2. A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer.
  2. (accounting) receivable: a debt owed, usually to a business, from the perspective of that business.
    Synonym: piutang
Alternative forms
  • débêt
Related terms

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Compounds

Usage notes

The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian due to shared etymology. The Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore usage can be seen in Malay debit.

Further reading

  • “debit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French débit.

Noun

debit n (plural debite)

  1. debit

Declension


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