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Is hate a Scrabble word?

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

H4A1T1E1

Is hate a Scrabble UK word?

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

H4A1T1E1

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

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4-letter words (5 found)

EATH,HAET,HATE,HEAT,THAE,

3-letter words (10 found)

ATE,EAT,ETA,ETH,HAE,HAT,HET,TAE,TEA,THE,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AH,AT,EA,EH,ET,HA,HE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 26 words from hate according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of hate

hate ahte htae thae athe tahe haet ahet heat ehat aeht eaht htea thea heta ehta teha etha ateh taeh aeth eath teah etah

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Definitions and meaning of hate

hate

Etymology

From Middle English hate (noun), probably from Old English hatian (“to hate”, verb) and/or Old Norse hatr (“hate”, noun). Merged with Middle English hete, hæte, heate (“hate”), from Old English hete, from Proto-Germanic *hataz (“hatred, hate”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂d- (“strong emotion”). Cognate with West Frisian haat, Dutch haat, German Hass, Norwegian and Swedish hat.

The verb is from Middle English haten, from Old English hatian (“to hate, treat as an enemy”), from Proto-West Germanic *hatēn, from Proto-Germanic *hatāną (“to hate”), from Proto-Germanic *hataz, from the same root as above.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: hāt, IPA(key): /heɪt/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /hæɪ̯t/
  • Rhymes: -eɪt
  • Homophone: Haight

Noun

hate (countable and uncountable, plural hates)

  1. An object of hatred.
  2. Hatred.
  3. (Internet slang) Negative feedback, abusive behaviour.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • → Polish: hejt

Translations

Verb

hate (third-person singular simple present hates, present participle hating, simple past and past participle hated)

  1. (transitive) To dislike intensely or greatly.
  2. (intransitive) To experience hatred.
  3. (informal, originally African-American Vernacular) Used in a phrasal verb: hate on.

Usage notes

  • This is generally a stative verb that is rarely used in the continuous (progressive) aspect. See Category:English stative verbs

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • (to dislike intensely): See Thesaurus:hate

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "to dislike intensely"): See Thesaurus:love

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • HEAT, Thea, eath, haet, heat, heta

Bola

Noun

hate

  1. liver

References

  • Brent Wiebe, Bola (Bola-Bakovi) Language Organized Phonology Data, p. 2

Cia-Cia

Alternative forms

  • 하떼

Etymology

From Proto-Celebic *qate, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

Noun

hate (Hangul spelling 하떼)

  1. (anatomy) liver (organ of the body)

References

  • Van den Berg, Rene (1991). "Preliminary Notes on the Cia-Cia Language," in Excursies in Celebes, pp. 305-324.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

hate

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of haten

Japanese

Romanization

hate

  1. Rōmaji transcription of はて

Middle English

Etymology 1

Most likely a modification of earlier hete (from Old English hete) after haten, though compare Old Norse hatr.

Alternative forms

  • ate, haate, hat, hatte

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhaːt(ə)/

Noun

hate (plural hates)

  1. Hate, hatred, anger, wroth.
    Synonyms: hatrede, hatynge, hete
  2. Something that causes or induces hate; insults, demeaning words.
  3. The results of hate; enmity, discord, turmoil.
    Synonyms: hatrede, hete
  4. (rare) Something that one hates.
Related terms
Descendants
  • English: hate
  • Scots: hate, hait, heit
References
  • “hāte, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.

Etymology 2

Verb

hate

  1. Alternative form of haten

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hata.

Verb

hate (imperative hat, present tense hater, passive hates, simple past and past participle hata or hatet, present participle hatende)

  1. to hate (somebody / something)

Related terms

  • hat (noun)

References

  • “hate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • hata

Etymology

From Old Norse hata.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²hɑːtə/

Verb

hate (present tense hatar, past tense hata, past participle hata, passive infinitive hatast, present participle hatande, imperative hate/hat)

  1. to hate (someone, something)

Related terms

  • hat (noun)

References

  • “hate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Ternate

Etymology

Does not continue Proto-North Halmahera *gota (“tree”). However, compare Proto-Timor-Alor-Pantar *hate ("tree").

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈha.te/

Noun

hate (Jawi هاتي)

  1. tree
  2. wood
  3. (by extension) woodwork

References

  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Unami

Verb

hate

  1. there is, there exists

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