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Is theme a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word theme is a Scrabble US word. The word theme is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is theme a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word theme is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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Is theme a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word theme is a Words With Friends word. The word theme is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

THEME,

4-letter words (10 found)

ETHE,HEME,HETE,MEET,METE,METH,TEEM,TEME,THEE,THEM,

3-letter words (9 found)

EME,ETH,HEM,HET,MEE,MEH,MET,TEE,THE,

2-letter words (8 found)

EE,EH,EM,ET,HE,HM,ME,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 29 words from theme according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of theme

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

Definitions and meaning of theme

theme

Etymology

From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do). Doublet of thema.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /θiːm/
  • Hyphenation: theme
  • Rhymes: -iːm (for all senses)
  • Rhymes: -iːmi (for the sense dealing with the Byzantine empire only) (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?)

Noun

theme (plural themes)

  1. A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
  2. A recurring idea; a motif.
    1. A concept with multiple instantiations.
    2. Any of various colors, or color palettes, in which a design is offered; (graphical user interface) any of various skins for an app, affecting the visuals and perhaps other elements such as sound effects.
      Synonym: colorway
  3. (dated) An essay written for school.
  4. (music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
  5. (film, television) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
  6. (grammar) The stem of a word.
  7. (linguistics) thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
  8. (linguistics) Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
  9. (linguistics) Topic, what is generally being talked about, as opposed to rheme.
  10. A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.

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Translations

Verb

theme (third-person singular simple present themes, present participle theming, simple past and past participle themed)

  1. (transitive) To give a theme to.
    We themed the birthday party around superheroes.
  2. (computing, transitive) To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).

References

  • Theme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Hemet

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

theme (plural themes)

  1. Alternative form of teme (“topic”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

theme

  1. Alternative spelling of þeme (“them”)

Source: wiktionary.org