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

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4-letter words (6 found)

ANES,EANS,NAES,SANE,SEAN,SENA,

3-letter words (11 found)

ANE,ANS,EAN,EAS,ENS,NAE,NAS,SAE,SAN,SEA,SEN,

2-letter words (8 found)

AE,AN,AS,EA,EN,ES,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 26 words from sane according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sane

sane

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sānus (“healthy; sane”). Doublet of sound.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /seɪn/, enPR: sān
  • Rhymes: -eɪn
  • Homophones: sain, Seine (one pronunciation)

Adjective

sane (comparative saner, superlative sanest)

  1. Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally.
  2. Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge the effect of one's actions in an ordinary manner.
  3. Rational; reasonable; sensible.

Synonyms

  • (possessing mental faculties): in one's right mind, play with a full deck
  • See also Thesaurus:sane.

Antonyms

  • insane
  • crazy
  • unbalanced
  • See also Thesaurus:insane.

Derived terms

  • sanely

Related terms

  • (being healthy): sanity, mental health
  • (possessing mental faculties): compos mentis, right-minded

Translations

See also

  • nome sane (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

  • ENSA, Esan, NAEs, NESA, Nase, Sean, Sena, eans, nase, sean

Ajië

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sane]

Adjective

sane

  1. bad

References

  • Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
  • Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Albanian

Noun

sane

  1. indefinite dative/genitive/ablative singular of sanë

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsane/
  • Rhymes: -ane
  • Hyphenation: sa‧ne

Adverb

sane

  1. healthily

Finnish

Etymology

sana (“word”) +‎ -e

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɑneˣ/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝ne̞(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -ɑne
  • Syllabification(key): sa‧ne
  • Hyphenation(key): sa‧ne

Noun

sane

  1. (linguistics) vocable (word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning)
  2. word token

Declension

Further reading

  • “sane”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

  • Esan

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsa.ne/
  • Rhymes: -ane
  • Hyphenation: sà‧ne

Adjective

sane f pl

  1. feminine plural of sano

Anagrams

  • anse

Japanese

Romanization

sane

  1. Rōmaji transcription of さね

Latin

Etymology 1

sānus (“healthy; sane”) +‎ -ē (adverb formant)

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsaː.neː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsaː.ne]

Adverb

sānē (comparative sānius, superlative sānissimē)

  1. soundly, healthily, well
  2. soberly, sensibly, reasonably, discreetly
  3. (by extension) yes, truly, indeed; certainly, right, really; quite, very
    Synonym: valde

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsaː.nɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsaː.ne]

Adjective

sāne

  1. vocative masculine singular of sānus

References

  • “sane”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sane”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “sane”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[3]
  • “sane”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Portuguese

Verb

sane

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

Spanish

Verb

sane

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

Source: wiktionary.org