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Is meme a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word meme is a Scrabble US word. The word meme is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

M3E1M3E1

Is meme a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word meme is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

M3E1M3E1

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4-letter words (1 found)

MEME,

3-letter words (3 found)

EME,MEE,MEM,

2-letter words (4 found)

EE,EM,ME,MM,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 9 words from meme according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of meme

meme emme mmee mmee emme meme meem emem meem emem eemm eemm mmee mmee meme emme meme emme emem meem eemm eemm meem emem

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

Definitions and meaning of meme

meme

Etymology 1

Shortened from mimeme, equivalent to mime +‎ -eme.

Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Shortened (after gene) from mimeme (compare English phoneme), anglicized as if from a noun derived from Ancient Greek μῑμέομαι (mīméomai) with the deverbal suffix -μα (-ma), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitation, copy”). The concept was later applied to the Internet by Mike Godwin.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: mēm, IPA(key): /miːm/
  • Rhymes: -iːm

Noun

meme (plural memes)

  1. (originally) Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
    Synonym: culturgen
  2. (Internet) Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, such as basic pictures, video templates, etc. [from 1993]
  3. (Internet) A specific instance of a meme, such as an image macro or a video, often with humorous superimposed text.
  4. (Internet slang, derogatory) Something not to be taken seriously; a joke.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • mimesis
Translations
See also
  • chain letter
  • forward
  • replicator

Verb

meme (third-person singular simple present memes, present participle meming or memeing, simple past and past participle memed)

  1. (intransitive, Internet slang) To create and use humorous memes.
  2. (transitive, Internet slang) To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve a goal in real life.
    Synonym: memeify
  3. (intransitive, Internet slang, by extension) To joke around.

References

Further reading

  • meme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Internet meme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

French mémé (“granny”)

Noun

meme (plural memes)

  1. (informal, term of endearment) granny; nana

Anagrams

  • meem

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

meme

  1. (childish) to sleep

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English meme.

Noun

meme

  1. a meme

Danish

Noun

meme

  1. meme

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English meme.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛmɛ/, /ˈmim/

Noun

meme (plural meme-meme, first-person possessive memeku, second-person possessive mememu, third-person possessive memenya)

  1. meme

References

  • “meme” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

meme m (plural memi)

  1. (protoscience) meme

Anagrams

  • emme

Kongo

Noun

meme (singular meme, singular dimeme, plural mameme)

  1. sheep

Luba-Kasai

Pronoun

meme

  1. me

Mandarin

Romanization

meme (Zhuyin ˙ㄇㄜ ˙ㄇㄜ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麼麼／么么

Northern Ohlone

Verb

meme

  1. (Ramaytush dialect) kill

Pajapan Nahuatl

Noun

meme

  1. butterfly

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English meme.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: me‧me
  • Rhymes: -emi

Noun

meme m (plural memes)

  1. meme (unit of cultural information)
  2. (Internet) meme (humorous image, video or other media shared in the Internet)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English meme.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeme/ [ˈme.me]
  • Rhymes: -eme
  • Syllabification: me‧me

Noun

meme m (plural memes)

  1. meme (unit of cultural information)
  2. meme (Internet slang)

Further reading

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

Swedish

Noun

meme n or c

  1. Alternative form of mem
    Synonym: (internet meme, slang) mejmej

Usage notes

Much more common than mem for internet memes.

Declension

References

  • meme in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

Reduplication of English meh (onomatopoeia for the sound a goat makes)

Noun

meme

  1. goat

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ممه (nipple, breast), a childish term formed like Ancient Greek μᾰ́μμη (mámmē) and Persian ممه (mame). In Turkic languages compare Azerbaijani məmə, Turkmen määme.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meme/
  • Hyphenation: me‧me

Noun

meme (definite accusative memeyi, plural memeler)

  1. (anatomy) breast

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org