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Is termite a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word termite is a Scrabble US word. The word termite is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is termite a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word termite is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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Is termite a Words With Friends word?

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7-letter words (2 found)

EMITTER,TERMITE,

6-letter words (4 found)

METIER,REEMIT,RETIME,TREMIE,

5-letter words (14 found)

MERIT,METER,METRE,MITER,MITRE,REMET,REMIT,RETEM,RETIE,TETRI,TIMER,TITER,TITRE,TRITE,

4-letter words (30 found)

EMIR,EMIT,ITEM,MEER,MEET,MERE,MERI,METE,MIRE,MITE,MITT,RETE,RIEM,RIME,RITE,RITT,TEEM,TEER,TEME,TERM,TETE,TIER,TIME,TIRE,TITE,TREE,TREM,TRET,TRIE,TRIM,

3-letter words (17 found)

EME,ERE,ERM,IRE,MEE,MET,MIR,REE,REI,REM,RET,RIM,RIT,TEE,TET,TIE,TIT,

2-letter words (10 found)

EE,EM,ER,ET,IT,ME,MI,RE,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 78 words from termite according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of termite

termite

Etymology

From French termite, which is from Latin termites, plural of termes.

Also possibly a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *term- (“drill”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɜː(ɹ).maɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)maɪt

Noun

termite (plural termites)

  1. A white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea.
  2. A contemptible person.

Synonyms

  • (white-bodied, wood-consuming insect): termes, white ant, wood ant

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

termite (third-person singular simple present termites, present participle termiting, simple past and past participle termited)

  1. (intransitive) Of a chimpanzee: to catch termites by inserting a stick or vine into their nest and waiting for them to climb up it.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • termite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • emitter

French

Etymology

Back-formation from termites. From Late Latin termites (plural of termes), late variant of the Classical Latin tarmes (“woodworm”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛʁ.mit/

Noun

termite m or f (plural termites)

  1. termite (white-bodied, wood-consuming insect)
    Synonym: fourmi blanche

Usage notes

While most dictionaries give termite as masculine, it is commonly used as a feminine noun, due to the ending -ite.

Descendants

  • → Romanian: termită

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin termitem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛr.mi.te/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrmite
  • Hyphenation: tèr‧mi‧te

Noun

termite f (plural termiti)

  1. termite (white-bodied, wood-consuming insect)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • metrite, rimette, temerti

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈter.mi.te/, [ˈt̪ɛrmɪt̪ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈter.mi.te/, [ˈt̪ɛrmit̪e]

Noun

termite m

  1. ablative singular of termes

Source: wiktionary.org