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Is tenure a Scrabble word?

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

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Is tenure a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Yes. The word tenure is a Words With Friends word. The word tenure is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (4 found)

NEUTER,RETUNE,TENURE,TUREEN,

5-letter words (8 found)

ENTER,ENURE,RENTE,TENUE,TERNE,TREEN,TUNER,URENT,

4-letter words (16 found)

ERNE,ETEN,NETE,REEN,RENT,RETE,RUNE,RUNT,TEEN,TEER,TENE,TERN,TREE,TRUE,TUNE,TURN,

3-letter words (20 found)

EEN,ENE,ERE,ERN,NEE,NET,NUR,NUT,REE,REN,RET,RUE,RUN,RUT,TEE,TEN,TUN,URE,URN,UTE,

2-letter words (11 found)

EE,EN,ER,ET,NE,NU,RE,TE,UN,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 60 words from tenure according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tenure

tenure

Etymology

From Middle English tenure, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French tenure, from Vulgar Latin *tenitura, from *tenitus, from Latin tentus (from teneō) + -ura.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɛn.jʊə/, /ˈtɛn.jə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɛn.jɚ/

Noun

tenure (countable and uncountable, plural tenures)

  1. A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
  2. A period of time during which something is possessed.
  3. A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.
  4. A right to hold land under the feudal system.

Synonyms

  • (a status of possessing a thing or an office): incumbency

Derived terms

  • tenure-track

Related terms

  • tenant
  • tenurial

Translations

Verb

tenure (third-person singular simple present tenures, present participle tenuring, simple past and past participle tenured)

  1. (transitive) To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).

Translations

Anagrams

  • neuter, retune, run tee, tureen, untree

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tə.nyʁ/

Noun

tenure f (plural tenures)

  1. (historical) tenure (right to hold land under the feudal system)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • eurent, neutre, retenu, teneur

Middle English

Noun

tenure

  1. Alternative form of tenour

Old French

Alternative forms

  • teneure (common), teneüre, tenëure (diaereses are not universally used in Old French transcriptions)
  • tenuire
  • tennure
  • tenour
  • tenuere

Noun

tenure oblique singular, f (oblique plural tenures, nominative singular tenure, nominative plural tenures)

  1. tenure (right to hold land under the feudal system)
  2. holding (of land); estate
  3. tenure, right of possession
    • 1283, Philippe de Beaumanoir, Les Coutumes de Beauvaisis, available in page 237 of this document

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (teneure)
  • tenure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Source: wiktionary.org