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Is teem a Scrabble word?

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

T1E1E1M3

Is teem a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word teem is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

T1E1E1M3

Is teem a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word teem is a Words With Friends word. The word teem is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

T1E1E1M4

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4-letter words (4 found)

MEET,METE,TEEM,TEME,

3-letter words (4 found)

EME,MEE,MET,TEE,

2-letter words (5 found)

EE,EM,ET,ME,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 14 words from teem according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of teem

teem

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English temen (“to bear, to support”), from Anglian Old English tēman (“to give birth”) (West Saxon tīeman), from Proto-West Germanic *taumijan (“to bridle”), from Proto-Germanic *taumijaną, from *taumaz ("bridle", continued in Modern English as team).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiːm/
  • Rhymes: -iːm
  • Homophone: team

Verb

teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)

  1. To be stocked to overflowing.
  2. To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
  3. (obsolete) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English temen (“to drain”), from Old Norse tœma, from Proto-Germanic *tōmijaną (“to empty, make empty”). Related to English toom (“empty, vacant”). More at toom.

Verb

teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)

  1. (archaic) To empty.
  2. To pour (especially with rain)
  3. To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
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Etymology 3

From Middle English temen (“to be suitable, befit”), from Old English *teman, from Proto-Germanic *temaną (“to fit”). Cognate with Low German temen, tamen (“to befit”), Dutch betamen (“to befit”), German ziemen. See also tame (adjective) and compare beteem.

Verb

teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To think fit.

Anagrams

  • Teme, etem, meet, mete, teme

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

teem

  1. inflection of temen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Farefare

Etymology

Cognate with Moore toeeme (“to change”)

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /téːm/

Verb

teem

  1. to move something
    Sẽŋɛ ka teem bʋʋsɩ la
    Go move the goats

Middle English

Noun

teem

  1. alternative form of tem (“group”)

Portuguese

Verb

teem

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of têm.

Usage notes

In Portugal between 1911 and 1945, as well as in Brazil before 1943, the third-person plural present indicative of ter was spelled teem. The spelling têm was later introduced.

See more in the usage notes at veem.


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