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Is premise a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word premise is a Scrabble US word. The word premise is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is premise a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word premise is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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Is premise a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word premise is a Words With Friends word. The word premise is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (8 found)

EMPIRES,EMPRISE,EPIMERS,IMPRESE,PERMIES,PREMIES,PREMISE,SPIREME,

6-letter words (13 found)

EMPIRE,EPIMER,EPRISE,ESPIER,MISERE,PERMIE,PREMIE,PRIMES,REMISE,SEMPER,SEMPRE,SIMPER,SPIREM,

5-letter words (34 found)

EMIRS,EPRIS,MEERS,MERES,MERIS,MERSE,MIRES,MISER,PEERS,PEISE,PERES,PERIS,PERMS,PERSE,PIERS,PREES,PREMS,PRESE,PRIES,PRIME,PRIMS,PRISE,PRISM,RIEMS,RIMES,RIPES,SEMIE,SIREE,SPEER,SPEIR,SPERM,SPIER,SPIRE,SPREE,

4-letter words (51 found)

EMES,EMIR,ERES,IMPS,IRES,MEER,MEES,MERE,MERI,MESE,MIPS,MIRE,MIRS,MISE,PEER,PEES,PERE,PERI,PERM,PIER,PIES,PIRS,PISE,PREE,PREM,PRIM,REES,REIS,REMS,REPS,RIEM,RIME,RIMS,RIPE,RIPS,RISE,RISP,SEEM,SEEP,SEER,SEIR,SEME,SEMI,SERE,SIMP,SIPE,SIRE,SMEE,SMIR,SPIE,SPIM,

3-letter words (34 found)

EME,EMS,ERE,ERM,ERS,IMP,IRE,ISM,MEE,MES,MIR,MIS,PEE,PER,PES,PIE,PIR,PIS,PRE,PSI,REE,REI,REM,REP,RES,RIM,RIP,SEE,SEI,SER,SIM,SIP,SIR,SRI,

2-letter words (11 found)

EE,EM,ER,ES,IS,ME,MI,PE,PI,RE,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 152 words from premise according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of premise

premise

Alternative forms

  • premiss
  • præmise, præmiss (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English premise, premisse, from Old French premisse, from Medieval Latin premissa (“set before”) (premissa propositio (“the proposition set before”)), feminine past participle of Latin praemittere (“to send or put before”), from prae- (“before”) + mittere (“to send”).

The sense "a piece of real estate" arose from the misinterpretation of the word by property owners while reading title deeds where the word was used with the legal sense.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: prĕm'ĭs, IPA(key): /ˈpɹɛm.ɪs/
  • Rhymes: -ɛmɪs

Noun

premise (plural premises)

  1. A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
  2. (logic) Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
  3. (usually in the plural, law) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
  4. (usually in the plural) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts.
  5. (authorship) The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.

Coordinate terms

  • conclusion

Derived terms

  • on-premise

Derived terms

  • major premise
  • minor premise

Related terms

  • mission

Translations

Verb

premise (third-person singular simple present premises, present participle premising, simple past and past participle premised)

  1. To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
  2. To make a premise.
  3. To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.
  4. To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
    • 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia
      if venesection can be previously performed, even to but few ounces, the effect of the opium is much more certain; and still more so, if there be time to premise a brisk cathartic, or even an emetic

References

  • “premise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • empires, emprise, epimers, imprese, permies, premies, spireme

Italian

Verb

premise

  1. third-person singular past historic of premettere

Anagrams

  • -spermie, esprime, imprese, permise, spremei

Source: wiktionary.org