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

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6-letter words (3 found)

SENNIT,SINNET,TENNIS,

5-letter words (9 found)

INSET,NEIST,NINES,NITES,SENTI,SIENT,STEIN,TEINS,TINES,

4-letter words (20 found)

ENTS,INNS,NEST,NETS,NIES,NINE,NITE,NITS,SENT,SIEN,SINE,SITE,SNIT,STEN,STIE,TEIN,TENS,TIES,TINE,TINS,

3-letter words (19 found)

ENS,EST,INN,INS,ITS,NET,NIE,NIS,NIT,SEI,SEN,SET,SIN,SIT,TEN,TES,TIE,TIN,TIS,

2-letter words (11 found)

EN,ES,ET,IN,IS,IT,NE,SI,ST,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 63 words from tennis according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tennis

tennis

Etymology

From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛnɪs/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnɪs
  • Homophone: tenness

Noun

tennis (usually uncountable, plural tennises)

  1. (sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
  2. (dated) A match in this sport.
  3. (obsolete) An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

tennis (third-person singular simple present tennises, present participle tennising, simple past and past participle tennised)

  1. (intransitive, dated) To play tennis.
  2. (transitive) To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.

See also

  • table tennis or ping pong

Anagrams

  • innest, nestin, sennit, sinnet, tensin

Catalan

Alternative forms

  • tenis

Etymology

Borrowed from English tennis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈtɛn.nis]

Noun

tennis m (uncountable)

  1. tennis

Further reading

  • “tennis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “tennis”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “tennis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Danish

Etymology

From English tennis.

Noun

tennis c (definite singular tennissen or tennisen)

  1. (uncountable, sports) tennis

Derived terms

  • tennisbane
  • tennisbold
  • tennisketsjer

Further reading

  • “tennis” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛ.nɪs/, /ˈtɛ.nəs/
  • Hyphenation: ten‧nis
  • Rhymes: -ɛnɪs

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tennis.

Noun

tennis n (uncountable)

  1. tennis (sport)
Derived terms
  • rolstoeltennis
  • tafeltennis
  • tennisarm
  • tennisbaan
  • tennisnet
  • tennisracket
  • tennissen
  • tennisspeelster
  • tennisspeler
  • tennisveld

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tennis

  1. inflection of tennissen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams

  • intens

Estonian

Etymology

From German Tennis.

Noun

tennis (genitive tennise, partitive tennist)

  1. tennis

Finnish

Etymology

From English tennis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtenːis/, [ˈt̪e̞nːis̠]
  • Rhymes: -enːis
  • Syllabification(key): ten‧nis

Noun

tennis

  1. tennis

Declension

Synonyms

  • verkkopallo (dated)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “tennis”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English tennis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛ.nis/, /te.nis/

Noun

tennis m (plural tennis)

  1. (usually uncountable, sports) tennis
  2. (countable, Europe, dated) sneaker

Derived terms

  • tennis de table

Further reading

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

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʰɛnːɪs/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnːɪs

Noun

tennis m (genitive singular tenniss, no plural)

  1. tennis

Declension

Derived terms

  • tennisolnbogi
  • tennisspaði

Anagrams

  • steinn

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tennis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛn.nis/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnnis
  • Hyphenation: tèn‧nis

Noun

tennis m (invariable)

  1. tennis

Related terms

  • tennistavolo
  • tennista
  • tennistico

Further reading

  • tennis in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)

  1. (sports) tennis

Derived terms

  • bordtennis
  • tennisbane
  • tennisspiller

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)

  1. (sports) tennis

Derived terms

  • bordtennis
  • tennisbane

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

tennis c

  1. (uncountable, sports) tennis

Declension

Derived terms

  • tennisarmbåge
  • tennisbana
  • tennisboll
  • tennismatch
  • tennisracket
  • tennisspelare

References

  • tennis in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • tennis in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • tennis in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

  • nitens, sinnet

Source: wiktionary.org