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Is minute a Scrabble word?

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

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Is minute a Scrabble UK word?

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

M3I1N1U1T1E1

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Yes. The word minute is a Words With Friends word. The word minute is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (4 found)

MINUET,MINUTE,MUNITE,MUTINE,

5-letter words (4 found)

MEINT,UNITE,UNMET,UNTIE,

4-letter words (21 found)

EMIT,ETUI,ITEM,MEIN,MENT,MENU,MIEN,MINE,MINT,MITE,MUNI,MUNT,MUTE,MUTI,NEUM,NITE,TEIN,TIME,TINE,TUNE,UNIT,

3-letter words (20 found)

EMU,MEN,MET,MEU,MUN,MUT,NET,NIE,NIM,NIT,NUT,TEN,TIE,TIN,TUI,TUM,TUN,UME,UNI,UTE,

2-letter words (15 found)

EM,EN,ET,IN,IT,ME,MI,MU,NE,NU,TE,TI,UM,UN,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 65 words from minute according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of minute

minute

Etymology 1

From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu and menudo.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: mĭn'ĭt, IPA(key): /ˈmɪnɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɪnɪt

Noun

minute (plural minutes)

  1. A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
  2. (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
    Synonyms: instant, jiffy, mo, moment, sec, second, tic
  3. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
    Synonyms: minute of arc, sexagesm
  4. (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
  5. A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
  6. A point in time; a moment.
  7. A nautical or a geographic mile.
  8. An old coin, a half farthing.
  9. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
  10. (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
  11. (slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time
    Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Tok Pisin: minit

Borrowings

Translations

Verb

minute (third-person singular simple present minutes, present participle minuting, simple past and past participle minuted)

  1. (transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
  2. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin minūtus (“small", "petty”), perfect passive participle of minuō (“make smaller”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: mīnyo͞ot', IPA(key): /maɪˈnjuːt/
  • (US) enPR: mīn(y)o͞ot', mən(y)o͞ot', IPA(key): /maɪˈn(j)ut/, /məˈn(j)ut/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /maɪˈn(j)uːt/, /mʌɪ-/, [məɪ̯-]
  • (Wales, Ottawa Valley) IPA(key): /maɪˈnɪu̯t/
  • Rhymes: -uːt

Adjective

minute (comparative minuter, superlative minutest)

  1. Very small.
    Synonyms: infinitesimal, insignificant, minuscule, tiny, trace; see also Thesaurus:tiny
    Antonyms: big, enormous, colossal, huge, significant, tremendous, vast
  2. Very careful and exact, giving small details.
    Synonyms: exact, exacting, excruciating, precise, scrupulous; see also Thesaurus:meticulous
Translations

Anagrams

  • minuet, munite, mutein, mutine, untime

Afrikaans

Noun

minute

  1. plural of minuut

Esperanto

Etymology

From minuto +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [miˈnute]
  • Rhymes: -ute
  • Hyphenation: mi‧nu‧te

Adverb

minute

  1. Lasting for a very short period; briefly, momentarily

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French minute, borrowed from Latin minūta. Compare menu, an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi.nyt/

Noun

minute f (plural minutes)

  1. minute (etymology 1, time unit, all same senses)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Farefare: miniti
  • Haitian Creole: minit
  • → Romanian: minut

Interjection

minute

  1. wait a sec!

Verb

minute

  1. inflection of minuter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miˈnu.te/
  • Rhymes: -ute
  • Hyphenation: mi‧nù‧te

Adjective

minute

  1. feminine plural of minuto

Anagrams

  • emunti, munite

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /miˈnuː.te/, [mɪˈnuːt̪ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /miˈnu.te/, [miˈnuːt̪e]

Participle

minūte

  1. vocative masculine singular of minūtus

References

  • "minute", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "minute", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • minute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Noun

minute

  1. Alternative form of mynute

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin minūta.

Noun

minute oblique singular, f (oblique plural minutes, nominative singular minute, nominative plural minutes)

  1. minute (one sixtieth of an hour)
    Coordinate terms: segont, eure, jor, semaine, an

Descendants

  • Middle French: minute
    • French: minute
      • → Farefare: miniti
      • Haitian Creole: minit
      • → Romanian: minut
    • → Dutch: minuut
      • Afrikaans: minuut
      • → Caribbean Javanese: menit
      • → Papiamentu: minit, minüt, minuut
      • → Trió: minut
  • Norman: minnute
  • Walloon: munute
  • → Central Franconian: Menutt, Minutt
  • → German: Minute, Minut
    • → Czech: minuta
    • → Estonian: minut
  • → Lower Sorbian: minuta
  • → Luxembourgish: Minutt
  • → Middle English: mynute, minute, mynut, mynet, minut
    • English: minute
      • Tok Pisin: minit
    • Scots: meenit

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: mi‧nu‧te

Verb

minute

  1. inflection of minutar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Noun

minute

  1. plural of minut

Source: wiktionary.org