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Is deem a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word deem is a Scrabble US word. The word deem is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is deem a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word deem is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

D2E1E1M3

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Yes. The word deem is a Words With Friends word. The word deem is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (3 found)

DEEM,DEME,MEED,

3-letter words (4 found)

DEE,EME,MED,MEE,

2-letter words (5 found)

DE,ED,EE,EM,ME,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 13 words from deem according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of deem

deem edem deem edem eedm eedm deme edme dmee mdee emde mede deme edme dmee mdee emde mede eemd eemd emed meed emed meed

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

Definitions and meaning of deem

deem

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /diːm/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /dim/
  • Rhymes: -iːm

Etymology 1

From Middle English dẹ̄men (“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sentence; to direct, order; to believe, think, deem”), from Old English dēman (“to decide, decree, deem”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōmijan, from Proto-Germanic *dōmijaną (“to judge, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to set, put”).

The word is cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål dømme (“to judge”), Dutch doemen (“to condemn, foredoom”), North Frisian dema (“to judge, recognise”), Norwegian Nynorsk døma (“to judge”), Swedish döma (“to judge, sentence, condemn”). It is also related to doom.

Verb

deem (third-person singular simple present deems, present participle deeming, simple past and past participle deemed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
    Synonym: judge
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To adjudge, to decree.
    Synonym: judge
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
    Synonym: judge
  4. (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
    Synonyms: consider; see also Thesaurus:deem
  5. (transitive, intransitive) To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English deme, from the verb (see above).

Noun

deem (plural deems)

  1. An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.
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Anagrams

  • Mede, deme, meed

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • deim

Noun

deem m (plural demen, diminutive deemke n)

  1. (Brabant) dumb person

Synonyms

  • sukkel

References

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Galician

Verb

deem

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of dar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German themu, demu, from Proto-Germanic *þammai.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deːm/
    • Rhymes: -eːm

Determiner

deem m or n (unstressed dem)

  1. dative of deen
  2. dative of dat

Declension

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: de‧em

Verb

deem

  1. inflection of dar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Scots

Etymology

Scots form of English dame.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dim/

Noun

deem (plural deems)

  1. woman, dame
  2. maid (especially a kitchen maid)

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