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

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4-letter words (4 found)

RITE,TIER,TIRE,TRIE,

3-letter words (5 found)

IRE,REI,RET,RIT,TIE,

2-letter words (6 found)

ER,ET,IT,RE,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 16 words from rite according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of rite

rite irte rtie trie itre tire riet iret reit erit iert eirt rtei trei reti erti teri etri iter tier ietr eitr teir etir

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Definitions and meaning of rite

rite

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹaɪt/
  • Rhymes: -aɪt
  • Homophones: right, wright, Wright, write

Etymology 1

Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.

Noun

rite (plural rites)

  1. A religious custom.
  2. (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • ritual
Translations

Etymology 2

Variation of right.

Adjective

rite (not comparable)

  1. Informal spelling of right.
Derived terms

Adverb

rite (not comparable)

  1. Informal spelling of right.
    • 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
      One of our cats has a bald spot on his hind & it looks like it was shaved rite off.

Interjection

rite

  1. Informal spelling of right.

Noun

rite (plural rites)

  1. Informal spelling of right.
    1. used in unique spellings of company brand names
    2. part of the contraction and interjection amirite

Anagrams

  • REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, tier, tire, trie

French

Alternative forms

  • rit (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ritus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁit/

Noun

rite m (plural rites)

  1. rite

Derived terms

  • rite de passage

Further reading

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

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rīte.

Pronunciation

Adverb

rite

  1. (literary, rare) strictly in accordance with the rules

Further reading

  • “rite” in Duden online
  • “rite” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “rite” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɾˠɪtʲə/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈɾˠɨ̞tʲə/

Etymology 1

Participle

rite

  1. past participle of righ

Adjective

rite

  1. taut, tense
  2. sharp, steep
  3. exposed [+ le (object) = to]
  4. eager [+ chun (object) = for]
Derived terms
  • riteacht f (“tautness”)

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rite”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “rigthe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39

Etymology 2

Participle

rite

  1. past participle of rith

Adjective

rite

  1. exhausted, extinct
Derived terms
  • rite anuas, rite síos (“run down”) (in health)

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rite”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Latin

Etymology

From rītus (“rite, custom”), presumably from an ablative of an old third-declension form *rītis.

Adverb

rīte (not comparable)

  1. according to religious usage, with due observances, with proper ceremonies, ceremonially, solemnly, duly

References

  • “rite”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “rite”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rite 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)
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *lite. Compare Hawaiian like.

Verb

rite

  1. to resemble; to be like, similar, alike

Derived terms

  • whakarite: to make something equal, to make something similar

References

  • “rite” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto rite and Nüpode Huitoto ritde.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɾitɛ]
  • Hyphenation: ri‧te

Verb

rite

  1. (transitive) to plant

Conjugation

References

  • Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎[3] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 214
  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎[4], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 87

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈrice]

Noun

rite

  1. nominative/accusative plural of riť

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