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Is meri a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word meri is a Scrabble US word. The word meri is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

M3E1R1I1

Is meri a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word meri is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

M3E1R1I1

Is meri a Words With Friends word?

The word meri is NOT a Words With Friends word.

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Valid words made from Meri

You can make 17 words from 'meri' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

4 letters words from 'meri'

EMIR 6MERI 6
MIRE 6RIEM 6
RIME 6 

3 letters words from 'meri'

ERM 5IRE 3
MIR 5REI 3
REM 5RIM 5

2 letters words from 'meri'

EM 4ER 2
ME 4MI 4
RE 2 

All 4 letters words made out of meri

meri emri mrei rmei ermi remi meir emir mier imer eimr iemr mrie rmie mire imre rime irme erim reim eirm ierm riem irem

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

Definitions and meaning of meri

meri

Noun

meri

  1. plural of merus

Anagrams

  • IMer, Meir, Mire, Remi, emir, mire, reim, riem, rime

Ajië

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [meri]

Adjective

meri

  1. dry

References

  • Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
  • Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Besisi

Etymology

From Proto-Aslian *bəriʔ (“forest”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *briiʔ (“forest”).

Noun

meri

  1. forest

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

Noun

meri (genitive mere, partitive merd)

  1. sea

Declension

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meri, borrowed from some Indo-European language (probably Proto-Balto-Slavic *mári), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeri/, [ˈme̞ri]
  • Rhymes: -eri
  • Syllabification: me‧ri

Noun

meri

  1. sea (a single area or the seas altogether)

Declension

  • Note the grammatical exception: the word has front vowels (ä, ö) in all cases taking those opposite vowels—except for the partitive singular, merta (a back vowel).

Derived terms

  • adjectives: merellinen
  • adverbs: meritse

Compounds

Hungarian

Etymology

mer (“to dare; to scoop, ladle”) +‎ -i (personal suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛri]
  • Hyphenation: me‧ri

Verb

meri

  1. third-person singular indicative present definite of mer

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse merr, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛːrɪ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛːrɪ

Noun

meri f (genitive singular merar, nominative plural merar)

  1. mare, female horse
    Synonym: hryssa

Declension

Anagrams

  • ermi, meir, reim

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meri, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Finnish meri and Estonian meri.

Pronunciation

  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈmeri/
  • Hyphenation: me‧ri

Noun

meri (genitive meren, partitive mertä)

  1. sea

Declension

References

  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[1], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 86
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 305
  • Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)‎[2], page 129
  • Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎[3], →ISBN, page 80

Italian

Adjective

meri

  1. masculine plural of mero

Anagrams

  • ermi, mire, remi, rime

Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

Noun

meri (genitive meren, partitive mertä)

  1. sea

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈme.riː/, [ˈmɛriː]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.ri/, [ˈmɛːri]

Noun

merī

  1. genitive singular of merum

Adjective

merī

  1. nominative masculine plural of merus
  2. genitive masculine singular of merus
  3. genitive neuter singular of merus
  4. vocative masculine plural of merus

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

Noun

meri

  1. sea

Middle English

Adjective

meri

  1. Alternative form of mery

Romanian

Noun

meri m pl

  1. plural of măr

Sardinian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin meridies

Noun

meri

  1. afternoon

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

meri (Cyrillic spelling мери)

  1. inflection of meriti:
    1. third-person singular present
    2. second-person singular imperative

Sranan Tongo

Verb

meri

  1. to touch

Sundanese

Noun

meri

  1. duck
  2. teal

Tok Pisin

Etymology

Either from English Mary or Tolai mari (“pretty”).

Noun

meri

  1. woman
    Coordinate term: man
  2. wife
    Coordinate terms: man, maritman

Adjective

meri

  1. female
    Coordinate term: man

Derived terms

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

Noun

meri

  1. sea

Inflection

Derived terms

References

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “море”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

Noun

meri (genitive mere, partitive merd)

  1. sea

Inflection

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

Noun

meri (genitive meree, partitive [please provide])

  1. sea

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

  • "meri" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat

Source: wiktionary.org
  • (Maori) a war-club.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)