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Is stream a Scrabble word?

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

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Is stream a Scrabble UK word?

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

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6-letter words (8 found)

ARMETS,MASTER,MATERS,MATRES,RAMETS,STREAM,TAMERS,TREMAS,

5-letter words (34 found)

ARETS,ARMET,ASTER,EARST,MARES,MARSE,MARTS,MASER,MATER,MATES,MEATS,RAMET,RATES,REAMS,REAST,RESAT,SATEM,SMART,SMEAR,STARE,STEAM,STEAR,STRAE,TAMER,TAMES,TARES,TASER,TEAMS,TEARS,TERAS,TERMS,TRAMS,TREMA,TREMS,

4-letter words (58 found)

AMES,ARES,ARET,ARMS,ARSE,ARTS,ATES,EARS,EAST,EATS,ERAS,ERST,ETAS,MAES,MARE,MARS,MART,MASE,MAST,MATE,MATS,MEAT,MESA,META,METS,RAMS,RASE,RAST,RATE,RATS,REAM,REMS,REST,RETS,SAME,SATE,SEAM,SEAR,SEAT,SERA,SETA,STAR,STEM,TAES,TAME,TAMS,TARE,TARS,TASE,TEAM,TEAR,TEAS,TEMS,TERM,TRAM,TREM,TRES,TSAR,

3-letter words (42 found)

AME,ARE,ARM,ARS,ART,ATE,ATS,EAR,EAS,EAT,EMS,ERA,ERM,ERS,EST,ETA,MAE,MAR,MAS,MAT,MES,MET,RAM,RAS,RAT,REM,RES,RET,SAE,SAM,SAR,SAT,SEA,SER,SET,SMA,TAE,TAM,TAR,TAS,TEA,TES,

2-letter words (16 found)

AE,AM,AR,AS,AT,EA,EM,ER,ES,ET,MA,ME,RE,ST,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 159 words from stream according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of stream

stream

Etymology

From Middle English streem, strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic *straum, from Proto-Germanic *straumaz (“stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”). Doublet of rheum.

Cognate with Scots strem, streme, streym (“stream, river”), North Frisian strum (“stream”), West Frisian stream (“stream”), Low German Stroom (“stream”), Dutch stroom (“current, flow, stream”), German Strom (“current, stream”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål strøm (“current, stream, flow”), Norwegian Nynorsk straum (“current, stream, flow”), Swedish ström (“current, stream, flow”), Icelandic straumur (“current, stream, torrent, flood”), Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”), Lithuanian srovė (“current, stream”) Polish strumień (“stream”), Welsh ffrwd (“stream, current”), Scottish Gaelic sruth (“stream”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: strēm, IPA(key): /stɹiːm/
  • Rhymes: -iːm

Noun

stream (plural streams)

  1. A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
  2. A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
  3. Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
  4. (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
  5. (figurative) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
    Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.
  6. (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
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  7. Digital data (e.g. music or video) delivered in a continuous manner to a client computer, intended for immediate consumption or playback.
    1. An instance of streaming digital data.
    2. A live stream.
  8. (UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.

Synonyms

  • (small river): beck, brook, burn

Hyponyms

  • (small river): rill
  • (moving water): river

Derived terms

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Translations

Verb

stream (third-person singular simple present streams, present participle streaming, simple past and past participle streamed)

  1. (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
  2. (intransitive) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
  3. (transitive) To discharge in a stream.
  4. (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

  • “stream”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  • “stream”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  • “stream”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “stream”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Anagrams

  • 'maters, Amster, METARs, Master, armest, armets, master, mastre, maters, matres, metras, ramets, ramset, remast, tamers, tremas, trémas

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English stream.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /striːm/
  • Hyphenation: stream

Noun

stream m (plural streams)

  1. (computing, Internet) A stream.

Related terms

  • livestream
  • streamen

French

Pronunciation

Noun

stream m (plural streams)

  1. (Internet) stream

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *straum.

Germanic cognates include Old Frisian strām, Old Saxon strōm, Old High German stroum, Old Norse straumr. Extra-Germanic cognates include Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma), Polish strumień, Albanian rrymë (“flow, current”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stræ͜ɑːm/

Noun

strēam m

  1. stream
  2. current

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: strem, streem
    • English: stream
    • Scots: streme, streim

See also

  • ēa (“river”)
  • gārseċġ (“ocean”)
  • mere (“lake”)
  • sǣ (“sea”)

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English stream. First attested in 1993.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /strim/
  • Rhymes: -im
  • Syllabification: stream

Noun

stream m inan

  1. (Internet) stream, live stream

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • stream in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • stream at Obserwatorium językowe Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English stream.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɾim/ [ˈst̪ɾĩm]
    • Rhymes: -im
  • IPA(key): (adapted) /esˈtɾim/ [esˈt̪ɾĩm]
    • Rhymes: -im

Noun

stream m (plural streams)

  1. (computing) stream

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian strām, from Proto-West Germanic *straum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /strɪə̯m/

Noun

stream c (plural streamen, diminutive streamke)

  1. river
    Synonym: rivier
  2. stream (of fluids), flow
  3. electric current

Derived terms

  • streame

Further reading

  • “stream”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Source: wiktionary.org