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What does teer mean? Is teer a Scrabble word?

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Is teer a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word teer is a Scrabble US word. The word teer is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

T1E1E1R1

Is teer a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word teer is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

T1E1E1R1

Is teer a Words With Friends word?

The word teer is NOT a Words With Friends word.

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Valid words made from Teer

You can make 13 words from 'teer' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

4 letters words from 'teer'

RETE 4TEER 4
TREE 4 

3 letters words from 'teer'

ERE 3REE 3
RET 3TEE 3

2 letters words from 'teer'

EE 2ER 2
ET 2RE 2
TE 2 

All 4 letters words made out of teer

teer eter teer eter eetr eetr tere etre tree rtee erte rete tere etre tree rtee erte rete eert eert eret reet eret reet

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word teer. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in teer.

Definitions and meaning of teer

teer

Verb

teer (third-person singular simple present teers, present participle teering, simple past and past participle teered)

  1. (transitive) To stir, as a calico-printer's sieve.

Anagrams

  • TREE, Tree, reet, rete, tree

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eːr

Etymology 1

Noun

teer m or n (uncountable)

  1. tar
Descendants
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: tere
  • Negerhollands: taer
  • → Indonesian: ter

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch têer, alternative form of têder, têeder (whence modern Dutch teder), from Old Dutch *tidar, from Proto-Germanic *tidaraz; cognate to Middle English teere.

Noun

teer m (uncountable)

  1. tenderness

Adjective

teer (comparative teerder, superlative teerst)

  1. tender, delicate
Inflection
Descendants
  • Negerhollands: teer, teeri

Etymology 3

Verb

teer

  1. first-person singular present indicative of teren
  2. imperative of teren

Etymology 4

Over time, teer was also used to refer to tuberculosis, analogously to English consumption.

Noun

teer m (uncountable)

  1. the act of digesting or being consumed
  2. tuberculosis

Etymology 5

From Middle Dutch tree, from Old Dutch *trio, *treo, from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree, wood”), from pre-Germanic *dréu̯om, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Cognate with English tree, Danish træ.

Noun

teer m (plural teren, diminutive teertje n)

  1. tree
Related terms
  • appelteer, elzenteer

Anagrams

  • eert, eter, reet, tere, tree

German

Pronunciation

Verb

teer

  1. singular imperative of teeren
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of teeren

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English tēar.

Noun

teer

  1. Alternative form of tere (“tear”)

Etymology 2

From Old English teoru.

Noun

teer

  1. Alternative form of ter (“tar”)

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch têer.

Noun

teer

  1. Alternative form of teere (“good”)

Etymology 4

From Old English teran.

Verb

teer

  1. Alternative form of teren (“to ruin by removing or splitting”)

Swedish

Noun

teer

  1. indefinite plural of te

Anagrams

  • eter

Source: wiktionary.org
  • TEENYBOPPER, a teenage girl.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)