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

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5-letter words (4 found)

METER,METRE,REMET,RETEM,

4-letter words (11 found)

MEER,MEET,MERE,METE,RETE,TEEM,TEER,TEME,TERM,TREE,TREM,

3-letter words (9 found)

EME,ERE,ERM,MEE,MET,REE,REM,RET,TEE,

2-letter words (7 found)

EE,EM,ER,ET,ME,RE,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 32 words from metre according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of metre

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Definitions and meaning of metre

metre

Alternative forms

  • meter

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmiːtə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmiːtəɹ/, [ˈmiːɾɚ]
  • Hyphenation: me‧tre
  • Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre). Doublet of meter, metron, and mether.

Noun

metre (plural metres)

  1. The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to 39+47127 (approximately 39.37) imperial inches.
Usage notes
  • The spelling metre is used by both the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and the International Organization for Standardization in their English-language texts, and is used in all English-speaking countries other than the US. The spelling used in the US is meter—for instance, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology and the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual use meter.
Synonyms
  • m
Derived terms

(Metric scale)

Descendants
  • Tok Pisin: mita
  • Burmese: မီတာ (mita)
  • Chinese: 米突 (mǐtū, mǐtú)
  • Japanese: メーター (mētā)
  • Korean: 미터 (miteo) (South Korea), 메터 (meteo) (North Korea, China)
  • Maori: mita
  • Swahili: mita
  • Yoruba: mítà
Translations
See also
  • Appendix on SI Units
References

“metre”, in Collins English Dictionary.

Further reading
  • SI prefixes
  • International Bureau of Weights and Measures

Verb

metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)

  1. (UK, rare) Alternative spelling of meter
Usage notes

The standard spelling of the verb meaning to measure is meter throughout the English-speaking world. The use of the spelling metre for this sense (outside music and poetry) is possibly a misspelling.

Etymology 2

From Old English, from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre).

Noun

metre (countable and uncountable, plural metres)

  1. (UK, Canada) The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition.
Translations

Verb

metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)

  1. (poetry, music) To put into metrical form.
See also
  • metronome
  • metric
  • Wikipedia article: metre (poetry)

Anagrams

  • -meter, -treme, Emert, meter, remet, retem

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French mètre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈmɛ.tɾə]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈme.tɾə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈme.tɾe]

Noun

metre m (plural metres)

  1. metre/meter (unit of measure, 100 cm)
  2. (poetry, music) metre/meter (the rhythm of a song or poem)
Derived terms
  • metratge

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Catalan metre, from Latin mittere. Compare Occitan metre, French mettre, Spanish meter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈmɛ.tɾə]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈmə.tɾə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈme.tɾe]

Verb

metre (first-person singular present meto, first-person singular preterite metí, past participle mes); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencian) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

  1. (transitive, archaic) to put, to place
    Synonym: posar
  2. (transitive, archaic) to set
Conjugation
Related terms

Further reading

  • “metre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “metre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “metre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “metre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan metre, from Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mittō. Attested from the 12th century.

Pronunciation

Verb

metre

  1. (transitive) to put, to place

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

  • mesa

References

Old French

Etymology

From Latin mittere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmetɾə/

Verb

metre

  1. to put, to place

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

  • Middle French: mettre, mectre, metre
    • French: mettre
  • Norman: maette (Guernsey), mettre (Jersey)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish متره (metre), from French mètre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmetɾe/

Noun

metre (definite accusative metreyi, plural metreler)

  1. metre, meter (unit of measure, 100 cm)
  2. rule, folding rule

Source: wiktionary.org