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Yes. The word marmite is a Scrabble US word. The word marmite is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is marmite a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word marmite is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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7-letter words (2 found)

MARMITE,TRAMMIE,

6-letter words (4 found)

IMARET,MAIMER,MATIER,TAMMIE,

5-letter words (20 found)

AIMER,AMRIT,ARMET,IRATE,MAIRE,MAMIE,MATER,MERIT,MIMER,MITER,MITRE,RAMET,RAMIE,REMIT,RETIA,RIMAE,TAMER,TERAI,TIMER,TREMA,

4-letter words (43 found)

AIRT,AMIE,AMIR,ARET,ARTI,EMIR,EMIT,EMMA,IMAM,ITEM,MAIM,MAIR,MARE,MARM,MART,MATE,MEAT,MERI,META,MIME,MIRE,MITE,RAIT,RAMI,RATE,REAM,RIEM,RIMA,RIME,RITE,TAME,TARE,TEAM,TEAR,TERM,TIAR,TIER,TIME,TIRE,TRAM,TREM,TRIE,TRIM,

3-letter words (39 found)

AIM,AIR,AIT,AME,AMI,ARE,ARM,ART,ATE,EAR,EAT,ERA,ERM,ETA,IRE,ITA,MAE,MAM,MAR,MAT,MEM,MET,MIM,MIR,RAI,RAM,RAT,REI,REM,RET,RIA,RIM,RIT,TAE,TAI,TAM,TAR,TEA,TIE,

2-letter words (18 found)

AE,AI,AM,AR,AT,EA,EM,ER,ET,IT,MA,ME,MI,MM,RE,TA,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 127 words from marmite according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of marmite

marmite

Etymology

From French marmite.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːˌmaɪt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹˌmaɪt/

Noun

marmite (countable and uncountable, plural marmites)

  1. (countable) A rounded cooking pot of various designs, commonly pot-bellied, with or without tripod, handles, lid etc; originally earthenware but currently more commonly of cast iron or other metals.
    • 1824 Thomas Gill. The Technical Repository p. 180: XXXV: On the French Marmite, or Pot-au-Feu: and on preparing Bouillon with it
      My little boy having been ill of a fever for forty days, I have learned from his attendant how to make the celebrated soup (bouillon) of Paris: and finding it to be superior to any that I ever before tasted, I take the liberty to send you the directions necessary to enable any one to prepare this cheap and desirable food.
      Earthen-pots with covers, made to hold from one to seven pounds of meat, are found in every family. The marmite bought for me was for one-and-a-half pound only: this quantity of lean meat (bœufmaigre), was always part of the leg or shoulder: it was put into the marmite, which was then filled up with cold water, about five pints, and placed on the hearth, close to the wood-fire; and when it began to simmer or boil gently, it threw up a scum, which was carefully taken off from time to time with a spoon, for the space of threequarters of an hour, which perfectly cleansed the meat and water from every impurity.
  2. (uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Marmite.

Anagrams

  • metiram

French

Etymology

In Middle French (attested 1388) used in the sense of an earthen or metal cooking-pot; later (17th century) also of bombs or grenades from their resemblance to iron cooking-pots. Earlier, the noun Old French marmite meant "hypocrite" (attested 1223); the semantic development is explained as the cooking-pot being covered and not revealing its interior (thus being "hypocritical", as compared to e.g. a cooking-pan or a plate).

The etymology of marmite "hypocrite" is explained as a compound of marmotter (“to mutter”) (from an onomatopoeic base mar- "murmur") and mite (“cat”) (an obsolete word for "cat", probably also onomatopoeic, i.e. imitative of meowing, extant only in the compound chattemite), and thus describing a person being evasive by "murmuring" or "meowing" instead of speaking plainly.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maʁ.mit/

Noun

marmite f (plural marmites)

  1. pot, cooking pot, marmite [1388]
  2. (metonymically) meal prepared in a cooking pot
  3. (military, slang) (heavy) shell [1637]
  4. (dated, slang) prostitute, especially one past the first youth, the "flesh pot" of the souteneur [1841]

Derived terms

  • faire bouillir la marmite

Descendants

  • → Catalan: marmita
  • → English: marmite
  • → Portuguese: marmita
  • → Spanish: marmita

Further reading

  • “marmite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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