Tee in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Tee

You can make 5 words from 'tee' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'tee'
• 2 letters words from 'tee'

3 letters words from 'tee'

TEE 3

2 letters words from 'tee'

EE 2	ET 2
TE 2

Definitions and meaning of tee

tee

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: T, te, tea, ti

Etymology 1

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English te, from Latin te (the name of the letter T).

Noun

tee (plural tees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.
   • 1985, Stephen King, Paranoid: A Chant

     They have writing samples and examine the back loops of pees and the crosses of tees.

2. Something shaped like the letter T.

   Hyponyms: tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed

3. (clothing) T-shirt.

Derived terms

• teevee

Translations

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Etymology 2

First attested in the 17th century as teaz, later reanalyzed as a plural.

Noun

tee (plural tees)

1. (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
2. (sports) A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is kicked or hit.
3. (curling) The target area of a curling rink
4. The mark at which players aim in quoits.

Derived terms

• tee ball
• tee off
• tee on
• tee up

Translations

Verb

tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past and past participle teed)

1. (golf) To place a ball on a tee

Synonyms

• tee up

References

Etymology 3

Noun

tee (plural tees)

1. A finial resembling an umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indochinese countries.

Anagrams

• EET

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch thee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪə̯/

Noun

tee (uncountable)

1. tea

Derived terms

• rooibostee
• teekoppie

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Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *tee. Cognate with Finnish tie.

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. road, way

Declension

Derived terms

• kiirtee
• maantee
• raudtee
• umbtee

Etymology 2

From German Tee, ultimately from Min Nan 茶 (tê).

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. tea

Declension

Derived terms

• liivatee

Etymology 3

Noun

tee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Etymology 4

Verb

tee

1. Second-person singular imperative form of tegema.
2. Present connegative form of tegema.

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Finnish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Swedish te, from Dutch thee, from Min Nan 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈt̪e̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification: tee

Noun

tee

1. (uncountable) tea (dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis)

   Mene kauppaan ja osta teetä.

   Go to the supermarket and buy some tea.

2. (uncountable) tea (drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water)

   Haluaisitko teetä?

   Would you like some tea?

3. (countable) tea (variety of the tea plant)

   Darjeeling on intialainen tee.

   Darjeeling is a tea from India.

4. (uncountable, by extension) tea (any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants)

   yrttitee, kamomillatee, minttutee

   herb tea, camomile tea, mint tea

5. (countable) tea, cup of tea (cup of any one of these drinks)

Usage notes

As the plural forms are quite rarely used and as they, with the exception of nominative, look the same as the plural forms of tie (“road”), it may be advisable to substitute a synonym for the word tee in those cases.

Declension

Synonyms

• (drink made of Camella sinensis): saikka, tsaju, tsaiju (dialectal)
• (variety of the tea plant): teelaatu
• (cup of tea): teekupillinen, kuppi teetä

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin tē.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈt̪e̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification: tee

Noun

tee

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Declension

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːˣ/, [ˈt̪e̞ː(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification: tee

Verb

tee

1. Present indicative connegative form of tehdä.
2. Second-person singular imperative form of tehdä.
3. Second-person singular imperative connegative form of tehdä.

Anagrams

• eet

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Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tee, from Proto-Finno-Permic *teje. Cognates include Finnish tie and Estonian tee.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa, Hevaha, Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/
  • (Saarve) IPA^(key): /ˈtiː/ (phonemic spelling: tii)
• (Ylä-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈtiː/ (phonemic spelling: tii)
• Hyphenation: tee

Noun

tee (genitive teen, partitive teetä)

1. way
2. path

Declension

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 66
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 583
• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)‎^[4], page 171

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *tēa, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ.

Noun

têe f

1. toe

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: teen (plural reanalysed as singular)
• Limburgish: tieën (plural reanalysed as singular)

Further reading

• “tee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “tee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: ti

Etymology

From English tee.

Noun

tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-er, definite plural tee-ene)

1. (golf) tee
2. (golf) peg

References

• “tee” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: ti

Etymology

From English tee.

Noun

tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-ar, definite plural tee-ane)

1. (golf) tee
2. (golf) peg

References

• “tee” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ete

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Old Irish

Adjective

teë

1. Alternative spelling of té

Mutation

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Ternate

Etymology

Likely from Malay teh, from Min Nan 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [teː]

Noun

tee

1. tea

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

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Tetum

Etymology

See the Tetum noun teen.

Verb

tee

1. to defecate, to excrete

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Tiri

Noun

tee

1. tea

References

• Midori Osumi, Tinrin Grammar

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Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tee.

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive [please provide])

1. way, road

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

• "tee" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat

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Võro

Noun

tee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowing from Dutch thee, from Malay teh, from Min Nan 茶 (tê).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teː/

Noun

tee c (no plural)

1. tea

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org

• TEDIUM, the state of being tedious.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)