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

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4-letter words (4 found)

MEET,METE,TEEM,TEME,

3-letter words (4 found)

EME,MEE,MET,TEE,

2-letter words (5 found)

EE,EM,ET,ME,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 14 words from mete according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of mete

mete emte mtee tmee etme teme meet emet meet emet eemt eemt mtee tmee mete emte teme etme etem teem eetm eetm teem etem

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

Definitions and meaning of mete

mete

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miːt/
  • Rhymes: -iːt
  • Homophones: meat, meet

Etymology 1

From Middle English meten, from Old English metan (“to measure, mete out, mark off, compare, estimate; pass over, traverse”), from Proto-West Germanic *metan, from Proto-Germanic *metaną (“to measure”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, consider”).

Cognate with Scots mete (“to measure”), Saterland Frisian meete (“to measure”), West Frisian mjitte (“to measure”), Dutch meten (“to measure”), German messen (“to measure”), Swedish mäta (“to measure”), Latin modus (“limit, measure, target”), Ancient Greek μεδίμνος (medímnos, “measure, bushel”), Ancient Greek μέδεσθαι (médesthai, “care for”), Old Armenian միտ (mit, “mind”).

Verb

mete (third-person singular simple present metes, present participle meting, simple past and past participle meted)

  1. (transitive, usually with “out”) To dispense, measure in order to dispense, allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).
    • 1870s Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Soothsay, lines 80-83
      the Power that fashions man
      Measured not out thy little span
      For thee to take the meting-rod
      In turn,
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English mete, borrowed from Old French mete (“boundary, boundary marker”), from Latin mēta (“post, goal, marker”). Cognate with the second element in Old English wullmod (“distaff”).

Noun

mete (plural metes)

  1. A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.

Etymology 3

Adjective

mete (comparative more mete, superlative most mete)

  1. Obsolete spelling of meet (“suitable, fitting”)

Anagrams

  • Teme, etem, meet, teem, teme

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛtɛ]

Verb

mete

  1. third-person singular present indicative of mést

Dutch

Verb

mete

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

Anagrams

  • meet

Estonian

Noun

mete

  1. genitive plural of mesi

Galician

Verb

mete

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

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From Saint Dominican Creole French mété, from French mettre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mete/

Verb

mete

  1. to put
  2. to put on

Italian

Noun

mete f

  1. plural of meta

Anagrams

  • teme, temè, temé

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈme.te/, [ˈmɛt̪ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.te/, [ˈmɛːt̪e]

Verb

mete

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of metō

Lithuanian

Noun

metè

  1. locative singular of mẽtas (“time”)

Noun

mẽte

  1. vocative singular of mẽtas (“time”)

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French mettre. Compare Haitian Creole mete.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mete/

Verb

mete (medial form met)

  1. to put; put on
  2. to set
  3. to wear

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English mete (“food”) (also met, mett, whence the forms with a short vowel). More at meat.

Alternative forms

  • mæte, meet, meete, mette

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛːt(ə)/, /mɛt/

Noun

mete (plural metes or meten)

  2. Food, nourishment or comestibles; that which is eaten:
    1. A store or supply of food.
    2. An individual serving of food, especially when cooked.
    3. Meat; the (usually cooked) flesh of animals as (an item of) food.
    4. Food that animals eat (including prey or lures)
  3. The act of dining; a lunch.
Derived terms
  • bake mete
  • meteles
Descendants
  • English: meat
  • Scots: mete, met, meit, mait
  • Yola: maate, met
References
  • “mē̆te, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old French mete (“boundary, mere”), from Latin mēta. More at mete.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛːt(ə)/

Noun

mete

  2. boundary, target, point, position
Descendants
  • English: mete

Etymology 3

From Old English ġemǣte (“suitable, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *mētijaz, a variant of *mētiz. More at meet.

Alternative forms

  • meete

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛːt(ə)/

Adjective

mete

  2. suitable, fitting, appropriate
  3. pleasing, accommodating, useful
  4. right in shape or size, well-fitting
Descendants
  • English: meet
  • Scots: mete, meit

Adverb

mete

  1. appropriately
  2. copiously

References

  • The Middle English Dictionary (M.E.D.)[3]
  • Riverside Chaucer[4]

Old English

Alternative forms

  • met, mett, mette

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *matiz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈme.te/

Noun

mete m

  1. food
    • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle English: mete, mæte, meet, meete, mette
    • English: meat
    • Scots: mete, met, meit, mait
    • Yola: maate, met

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

  • meit, met

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mati.

Noun

mete

  1. food, especially sustenance (as opposed to desserts, snacks, or sweets)

Descendants

  • North Frisian: meet

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ɛtɨ
  • Hyphenation: me‧te

Verb

mete

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

Rawa

Adjective

mete

  1. good

References

  • Norma Toland, Donald Toland, Reference Grammar of the Karo/Rawa Language (1991)

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

mete (Cyrillic spelling мете)

  1. third-person singular present of mesti

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmete/ [ˈme.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ete
  • Syllabification: me‧te

Verb

mete

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

Sumerian

Romanization

mete

  1. Romanization of 𒋼 (mete)

Swedish

Etymology

From meta (“angle for fish”).

Noun

mete n

  1. (fishing) angling for fish

Declension

See also

  • fiske
  • metspö

References

  • mete in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • mete in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • mete in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French metre, from Latin mittō, mittere (“send”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛt/

Verb

mete

  1. to put

Conjugation

West Makian

Etymology

Likely cognate with Ternate mote (“to follow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈme.t̪e/

Verb

mete

  1. (transitive) to follow

Conjugation

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[5], Pacific linguistics

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