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Is tandem a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word tandem is a Scrabble US word. The word tandem is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is tandem a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word tandem is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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Yes. The word tandem is a Words With Friends word. The word tandem is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

TANDEM,

5-letter words (13 found)

ADMEN,AMEND,AMENT,ANTED,DEMAN,MANED,MANET,MATED,MEANT,MENAD,MENTA,NAMED,TAMED,

4-letter words (28 found)

AMEN,ANTE,DAME,DAMN,DANT,DATE,DEAN,DENT,ETNA,MADE,MAND,MANE,MATE,MEAD,MEAN,MEAT,MEND,MENT,META,NAME,NEAT,NEMA,TAED,TAME,TANE,TEAD,TEAM,TEND,

3-letter words (33 found)

AME,AND,ANE,ANT,ATE,DAE,DAM,DAN,DEN,EAN,EAT,END,ETA,MAD,MAE,MAN,MAT,MED,MEN,MET,MNA,NAE,NAM,NAT,NED,NET,TAD,TAE,TAM,TAN,TEA,TED,TEN,

2-letter words (18 found)

AD,AE,AM,AN,AT,DA,DE,EA,ED,EM,EN,ET,MA,ME,NA,NE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 94 words from tandem according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tandem

tandem

Etymology

From Latin tandem (“(of time) at length, at last”). In English, applied humorously (by someone who knew Latin) to two horses harnessed "at length" (i.e., in a single line) instead of side-by-side.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, General Australian)IPA(key): /ˈtæn.dəm/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtæn.dəm/, [ˈtɛən.dəm]
  • Rhymes: -ændəm

Noun

tandem (plural tandems)

  1. A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other, both providing the pulling power but only the animal in front able to steer. [from mid 18th c.]
    • 1850-50, William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis, ch 3:
      Mr. Foker was no more like a gentleman now than in his school days: and yet Pen felt a secret pride in strutting down High Street with a young fellow who owned tandems, talked to officers, and ordered turtle and champagne for dinner.
  2. (transferred sense) A bicycle or tricycle in which two people sit one behind the other, both able to pedal but only the person in front able to steer. [from late 19th c.]
  3. (figurative) A group of two or more people, machines etc. working together; close collaboration.
  4. (education) A method of language learning based on mutual exchange, where ideally each learner is a native speaker in the language the other person wants to learn.
  5. (medicine) a hollow metal tube containing radioactive material, inserted through the vagina into the uterus for treatment of gynecological cancer.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Assamese: টমটম (tomtom)
  • → Bengali: টমটম (ṭomoṭom)
  • → Catalan: tàndem
  • → Czech: tandem
  • → Danish: tandem
  • → Dutch: tandem
  • → Finnish: tandem
  • → French: tandem
  • → German: Tandem
  • → Greek: τάντεμ (tántem)
  • → Hungarian: tandem
  • → Italian: tandem
  • → Polish: tandem
  • → Portuguese: tandem
  • → Russian: танде́м (tandɛ́m)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: та̀нде̄м / tàndēm
  • → Spanish: tándem

Translations

Adverb

tandem (not comparable)

  1. One behind the other.

Synonyms

  • in tandem

Translations

Adjective

tandem (not comparable)

  1. Together; working as one.

Derived terms

  • randem

Translations

Further reading

  • tandem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Tandem, from English tandem, originally from Latin tandem (“at last”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtandɛm]

Noun

tandem m inan

  1. tandem

Declension

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tandem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑn.dɛm/

Noun

tandem m (plural tandems, diminutive tandempje n)

  1. tandem (vehicle, bicycle)
  2. tandem (arrangement)
  3. (biology) A phase in the mating ritual of dragonflies.
  4. A pair, a couple, a duo.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English tandem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑ̃.dɛm/

Noun

tandem m (plural tandems)

  1. tandem (vehicle, bicycle)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • dament

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tandem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtandɛm/

Adverb

tandem

  1. (neologism) finally, at last, eventually
    Synonym: fine

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tandem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtan.dem/
  • Rhymes: -andem
  • Hyphenation: tàn‧dem

Noun

tandem m (invariable)

  1. tandem (all senses)

References

Latin

Etymology

From tam (“so”) +‎ -dem (“new interpreted particle from īdem”). Compare with its earlier doublet: tamen. Both with original meaning supposedly "so(much)ever".

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtan.dem/, [ˈt̪än̪d̪ɛ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtan.dem/, [ˈt̪än̪d̪em]

Adverb

tandem (not comparable)

  1. at length, at last, finally, eventually
  2. used also as an adverbial intensifier of interrogatives to a somewhat greater degree than -nam

Usage notes

  • The particle -nam and adverb tandem (“finally”) may be added to interrogative pronouns and adverbs to add emphasis. The adverb tandem adds stronger emphasis.

Synonyms

  • demum, postremo

Related terms

Descendants

  • Sicilian: tannu

References

  • “tandem”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tandem”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tandem in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tan‧dem

Noun

tandem m (plural tandens)

  1. tandem (bicycle with two seats and two sets of pedals)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tandem.

Noun

tandem n (plural tandemuri)

  1. tandem

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtanden/ [ˈt̪ãn̪.d̪ẽn]
  • Rhymes: -anden

Noun

tandem m (plural tandems)

  1. tandem
  2. language exchange

Source: wiktionary.org