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Yes. The word tame is a Scrabble US word. The word tame is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (5 found)

MATE,MEAT,META,TAME,TEAM,

3-letter words (10 found)

AME,ATE,EAT,ETA,MAE,MAT,MET,TAE,TAM,TEA,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AM,AT,EA,EM,ET,MA,ME,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

All 4 letters words made out of tame

tame atme tmae mtae amte mate taem atem team etam aetm eatm tmea mtea tema etma meta emta amet maet aemt eamt meat emat

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Definitions and meaning of tame

tame

Pronunciation

  • enPR: tām, IPA(key): /teɪm/
  • Rhymes: -eɪm
  • Homophone: Thame

Etymology 1

From Middle English tame, tome, weak inflection forms of Middle English tam, tom, from Old English tam, tom (“domesticated, tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tam (“tame”), from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“brought into the home, tame”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to tame, dominate”).

Cognate with Scots tam, tame (“tame”), Saterland Frisian tom (“tame”), West Frisian tam (“tame”), Dutch tam (“tame”), Low German Low German tamm, tahm (“tame”), German zahm (“tame”), Danish tam (“tame”), Swedish tam (“tame”), Icelandic tamur (“tame”).

The verb is from Middle English tamen, temen, temien, from Old English temian (“to tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tammjan, from Proto-Germanic *tamjaną (“to tame”).

Adjective

tame (comparative tamer, superlative tamest)

  1. Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
    Antonym: wild
  2. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact.
    Synonym: gentle
  3. (figurative) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
  4. (obsolete) Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.
  5. Not exciting.
    Synonyms: dull, flat, insipid, unexciting
    Antonym: exciting
  6. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
  7. (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
    Antonym: wild
Quotations
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:tame.
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Translations

Verb

tame (third-person singular simple present tames, present participle taming, simple past and past participle tamed)

  1. (transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
  2. (intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.
  3. (transitive) To make gentle or meek.
    to tame a rebellion
Derived terms
Translations

Further reading

  • tame on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English tamen (“to cut into, broach”). Compare French entamer.

Verb

tame (third-person singular simple present tames, present participle taming, simple past and past participle tamed)

  1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

Anagrams

  • AEMT, ATEM, Atem, META, Meta, Team, Tema, mate, maté, meat, meta, meta-, team

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *δëmē.

Pronunciation

Noun

taṃe

  1. glue

Inflection

Further reading

  • tame in Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Taarna Valtonen, Miina Seurujärvi and Trond Trosterud (2015–2022) Nettidigisäänih Anarâškiela-suomakielâ-anarâškielâ sänikirje‎[1], Tromsø: UiT
  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Japanese

Romanization

tame

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ため

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English tam, tom, from Proto-West Germanic *tam (“tame”).

Adjective

tame

  1. (of animals) tame, domesticated
  2. (of plants) cultivated, domesticated
  3. overcome, subdued
  4. (of people) meek, compliant
  5. (anatomy, medicine, of a fistula) inner, interior
Alternative forms
  • tam; tom, tome (early Southwest and Southwest Midlands)
Descendants
  • English: tame
  • Scots: tame

References

  • “tāme, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

tame (third-person singular simple present tameth, present participle tamende, tamynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle tamed)

  1. Alternative form of tamen (“to cut, carve”)

Etymology 3

Noun

tame (uncountable)

  1. (Northern) Alternative form of tome (“freetime”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

tame

  1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of tam
  2. (non-standard since 2012) plural of tam

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

tame (Cyrillic spelling таме)

  1. inflection of tama:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Swedish

Adjective

tame

  1. definite natural masculine singular of tam

Anagrams

  • meta, team, tema

Source: wiktionary.org