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Is rete a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word rete is a Scrabble US word. The word rete is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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Is rete a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word rete is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

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Valid words made from Rete

You can make 13 words from 'rete' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

4 letters words from 'rete'

RETE 4TEER 4
TREE 4 

3 letters words from 'rete'

ERE 3REE 3
RET 3TEE 3

2 letters words from 'rete'

EE 2ER 2
ET 2RE 2
TE 2 

All 4 letters words made out of rete

rete erte rtee tree etre tere reet eret reet eret eert eert rtee tree rete erte tere etre eter teer eetr eetr teer eter

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

Definitions and meaning of rete

rete

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rete.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹiːti/
  • Rhymes: -iːti

Noun

rete (plural retes or retia)

  1. (anatomy) A network of blood vessels or nerves.
  2. An anatomical part resembling or including a network.
  3. A rotating cutaway plate or overlay on an astrolabe or starmap which represents the horizon; used to locate stars and other astronomical features.

Anagrams

  • TREE, Tree, reet, teer, tree

'Are'are

Verb

rete

  1. be good

References

  • Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin rēte.

Noun

rete m

  1. net

References

  • Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “rete”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Verb

rete

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of retar

Chamicuro

Etymology

From Spanish red.

Noun

rete

  1. net

Chuukese

Etymology

re- +‎ -te

Pronoun

rete

  1. they will never
  2. so they do not

Related terms


Dutch

Verb

rete

  1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of rijten

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈrete]
  • Rhymes: -ete
  • Hyphenation: re‧te

Adverb

rete

  1. with a net
  2. Clipping of interrete: on the Internet

Guaraní

Noun

rete

  1. body

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French rester.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣeˈte/

Verb

rete

  1. to live, reside
  2. to stay
  3. (idiomatic) Wait a short while.

Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian rete, Portuguese rede, Spanish red and French réseaux, all ultimately from Latin rēte.

Noun

rete (plural retes)

  1. network (structure of interconnected elements for transit or communication or in a fabric, group of interacting agents)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin rēte (“net”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈre.te/
  • Rhymes: -ete
  • Hyphenation: ré‧te

Noun

rete f (plural reti)

  1. net
  2. network
  3. (soccer) goal

Related terms

Anagrams

  • erte

Latin

Alternative forms

  • rētia, rētium

Etymology

Uncertain.

  • From a Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- root, related to rarus, Lithuanian rėtis (“sieve”), and other roots with the general meaning "bind, twist."
  • or for *srēte, from serō ("to bind").

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈreː.te/, [ˈreːt̪ɛ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈre.te/, [ˈrɛːt̪ɛ]

Noun

rēte n (genitive rētis); third declension

  1. net, snare, network
  2. (figuratively) trap
  3. (New Latin) The internet.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Derived terms

  • interrēte
  • irrētiō
  • rētiarius (“net-wielding gladiator”)
  • rēticulum (“network”)
  • rētifex (“net-maker”)

Descendants

References

  • rete in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rete in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rete in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • rete in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • rete in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Verb

rete

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of retar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of retar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of retar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of retar.

Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɾe.te]

Verb

rete

  1. (transitive) to stack up, pile, layer

Conjugation

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Source: wiktionary.org
  • (obsolete) reckless.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)