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Is eten a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word eten is a Scrabble US word. The word eten is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

E1T1E1N1

Is eten a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word eten is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

E1T1E1N1

Is eten a Words With Friends word?

The word eten is NOT a Words With Friends word.

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Valid words made from Eten

You can make 16 words from 'eten' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.


4 letters words from 'eten'

ETEN 4NETE 4
TEEN 4TENE 4

3 letters words from 'eten'

EEN 3ENE 3
NEE 3NET 3
TEE 3TEN 3

2 letters words from 'eten'

EE 2EN 2
ET 2NE 2
TE 2 

All 4 letters words made out of eten

eten teen eetn eetn teen eten etne tene ente nete tnee ntee eent eent enet neet enet neet tene etne tnee ntee ente nete

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

Definitions and meaning of eten

eten

Basque

Pronunciation

  • (standard) IPA(key): /e.ten/

Etymology 1

Verb

eten (present participle eteten, future participle etengo, infinitive eten, verbal noun etete)

  1. break, separate
  2. stop, interrupt

Etymology 2

Noun

eten

  1. genitive plural of eta

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeːtə(n)/
  • Hyphenation: eten
  • Rhymes: -eːtən

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ēten, from Old Dutch etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti.

Verb

eten

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat
Inflection
Derived terms
  • afeten
  • dooreten
  • eetstoornis
  • leegeten
  • mee-eten
  • opeten
  • overeten
  • tegeneten
  • voleten
  • vreten
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: eet

Etymology 2

Gerund of the verb eten.

Noun

eten n (uncountable, diminutive etentje n)

  1. food
  2. dinner
Derived terms
  • avondeten
  • etenstijd
  • middageten

Anagrams

  • neet, teen

Japanese

Romanization

eten

  1. Rōmaji transcription of エテン

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German ēten, from Old Saxon etan.

Cognate with Dutch eten, West Frisian ite, German essen, English eat, Danish æde, Swedish äta, Icelandic éta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeːtən/

Verb

eten (past singular eet, past participle eten, auxiliary verb hebben)

  1. to eat

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • Eten
  • opeten
  • övereten

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan.

Verb

ēten

  1. to eat

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: eten
    • Afrikaans: eet
  • Limburgish: aete

Further reading

  • “eten (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “eten (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • æten, etenn, eeten

Etymology

From Old English etan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛːtən/

Verb

eten

  1. To eat, devour
  2. To consume or have a meal
  3. To swallow, ingest
  4. (figuratively) To derive might from something
  5. To gnaw, scrape at
  6. To destroy, devastate (a person or of an object)

Conjugation

Descendants

  • English: eat
  • Scots: aet, eat, eit, ete
  • Yola: at, ayth (simple past)

References

  • “ēten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Swedish

Etymology

Equivalent to eter (“ether”) +‎ -en

Noun

eten

  1. (organic chemistry) ethene, ethylene

Synonyms

  • etylen

Anagrams

  • enet

Source: wiktionary.org
  • a giant.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)
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