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Is eme a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word eme is a Scrabble US word. The word eme is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Is eme a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word eme is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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Yes. The word eme is a Words With Friends word. The word eme is worth 6 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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Valid words made from Eme

You can make 6 words from 'eme' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

3 letters words from 'eme'

EME 5MEE 5

2 letters words from 'eme'

EE 2EM 4
ME 4 

All 3 letters words made out of eme

eme mee eem eem mee eme

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

Definitions and meaning of eme

eme

Alternative forms

  • eam
  • eem (dialectal)
  • eame
  • neam
  • neame
  • neme

Etymology

From Middle English éam, eom, em, eme (“uncle”), from Old English ēam (“uncle”). See eam.

Noun

eme (plural emes)

  1. (obsolete outside Scotland) An uncle.
  2. (Scotland) Friend.

Related terms

  • eam

Anagrams

  • Mee, eem, mee

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eme/, [e̞.me̞]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Gascon hemna (“woman”), from Old Occitan femna (“woman”), itself from Latin fēmina (“woman”).

Noun

eme anim

  1. female
Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

eme inan

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.
Declension
See also
  • (Latin-script letter names) a, be, ze, de, e, efe, ge, hatxe, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, ku, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve bikoitz, ixa, i greko, zeta

References

Further reading

  • “eme” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
  • “eme” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Galician

Pronunciation

Noun

eme m (plural emes)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

Hungarian

Etymology

em (variation of íme) +‎ e

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛmɛ]
  • Hyphenation: eme
  • Rhymes: -mɛ

Pronoun

eme

  1. (archaic, poetic) this

Determiner

eme (demonstrative)

  1. (archaic, poetic) this
    • 1846, Petőfi Sándor, Egy gondolat bánt engemet...
      És a zászlókon eme szent jelszóval: - (And on the flags with this holy word:)
      „Világszabadság!” - (World freedom!)

Usage notes

A rarer substitute of ez, but unlike ez, it does not take the case of the noun it is attached to, and no definite article is used:

Use eme before words beginning with consonants. Use emez before words beginning with vowels (e.g. emez esetben, emez alkalommal).

Synonyms

  • e
  • ezen

Derived terms

  • mindeme

Further reading

  • eme in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Back-formation from emoglobina.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛ.me/
  • Rhymes: -ɛme
  • Hyphenation: è‧me

Noun

eme m (plural emi)

  1. (biochemistry) heme

Latin

Verb

eme

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of emō

Nauruan

Etymology

From Pre-Nauruan *mata, from Proto-Micronesian *mata, from Proto-Oceanic *mata, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *mata.

Noun

eme

  1. eye

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese eme.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈe.mj/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.mɨ/
  • Hyphenation: e‧me

Noun

eme m (plural emes)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.
    Synonym: mê

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:eme.

Scots

Alternative forms

  • eam
  • eame
  • eem
  • eeme
  • eime
  • emm
  • emme
  • eyme

Etymology

From Middle English eem, from Old English ēam, from Proto-Germanic *awahaimaz (“maternal uncle”), related to Latin avus (“grandfather”). Cognate with Dutch Dutch oom, German German Ohm, German Oheim.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [im]

Noun

eme (plural emes)

  1. maternal uncle
  2. friend

Synonyms

  • (maternal uncle): mither-brither

Related terms

  • uncle (“paternal uncle”)

Further reading

  • “eme” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Spanish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeme/, [ˈe.me]

Noun

eme f (plural emes)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

Etymology 2

From mierda (“shit”).

Noun

eme f (plural emes)

  1. Euphemistic form of mierda.

Further reading

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

Sumerian

Romanization

eme

  1. Romanization of 𒅴 (eme)

Tacana

Noun

eme

  1. hand

Toba Batak

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *həmay, from Proto-Austronesian *Səmay.

Noun

eme

  1. paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)

References

  • Warneck, J. (1906). Tobabataksch-Deutsches Wörterbuch. Batavia: Landsdrukkerij, p. 65.

Source: wiktionary.org
  • (obsolete) an uncle.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)