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Is temse a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word temse is a Scrabble US word. The word temse is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is temse a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word temse is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

T1E1M3S1E1

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5-letter words (7 found)

MEETS,METES,STEEM,STEME,TEEMS,TEMES,TEMSE,

4-letter words (14 found)

EMES,MEES,MEET,MESE,METE,METS,SEEM,SEME,SMEE,STEM,TEEM,TEES,TEME,TEMS,

3-letter words (10 found)

EME,EMS,EST,MEE,MES,MET,SEE,SET,TEE,TES,

2-letter words (7 found)

EE,EM,ES,ET,ME,ST,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 39 words from temse according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of temse

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

Definitions and meaning of temse

temse

Alternative forms

  • tems, tempse

Etymology

From Middle English temse (“a sieve”) and temsen (“to sieve”), both from Old English temsian, temesian (“to sieve; strain; sift”).

Compare also French tamis, Dutch teems, North Frisian tems, Danish dialectal tems (“sieve”), German dialectal Zims (“sieve”). Compare also tamine. Doublet of tamis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛms/, /tɛmz/

Verb

temse (third-person singular simple present temses, present participle temsing, simple past and past participle temsed)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) To sift.

Noun

temse (plural temses)

  1. (UK, obsolete or dialectal) A sieve.

Derived terms

  • temse bread, temsed bread
  • temse loaf

References

  • “temse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Tesem, meets, metes, steem, steme, teems, temes

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • temes, temeze, temmes, temps, tempse, temys, temze

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English *temes, from Proto-West Germanic *tamisu, of unclear origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛːmz(ə)/, /ˈteːmz(ə)/, /ˈtɛmz(ə)/, /-(p)s(ə)/

Noun

temse

  1. sieve
    Synonym: sive
Related terms
  • temsen
Descendants
  • English: temse, tems, tempse
  • Scots: teemse

References

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

Etymology 2

Verb

temse

  1. Alternative form of temsen

Source: wiktionary.org