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

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

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3-letter words (3 found)

EEW,EWE,WEE,

2-letter words (3 found)

EE,EW,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 7 words from wee according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of wee

wee

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wē, IPA(key): /wiː/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Homophones: oui, we, Wii; whee (wine–whine merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English wey, weygh, wegh, weȝe, wæȝe (“little bit”), from Old English wǣġ, wǣġe (“weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales, weight”) and *wēgǭ (“weight”), related to Middle English weġan (“to move, weigh”) (15c).

Adjective

wee (comparative weer, superlative weest)

  1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, New Zealand, Ottawa Valley, Mid-Ulster) Small, little.
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

wee

  1. A short time or short distance.

References

  • Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic for the sound of urination. The noun derives from the verb.

Noun

wee (countable and uncountable, plural wees)

  1. (colloquial, uncountable) Urine.
  2. (colloquial, countable) An act of urination.
    I need to have a wee.
Synonyms
  • (all senses): wee-wee
  • (urine): See Thesaurus:urine
  • (urination): See Thesaurus:urination
Translations

Verb

wee (third-person singular simple present wees, present participle weeing, simple past and past participle weed)

  1. (UK, colloquial) To urinate.
Synonyms
  • wee-wee, see also Thesaurus:urinate
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

  • see we

Pronoun

wee (personal pronoun)

  1. obsolete emphatic of we

See also

Anagrams

  • EWE, eew, Ewe, ewe

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈweː/ [ˈweː]
  • Hyphenation: wee

Verb

wée (autobenefactive weyité)

  1. (transitive) lack
  2. (transitive) miss
  3. (auxiliary) Used to form the negative of some moods and aspects.

Conjugation

References

  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “wee”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *wē, from Proto-West Germanic *wai, from Proto-Germanic *wai.

Compare Old English wā (English woe), Old High German wē (German weh), Old Norse vei.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋeː/
  • Rhymes: -eː

Adjective

wee (not comparable)

  1. nauseating

Declension

Noun

wee f (plural weeën, diminutive weetje n)

  1. contraction during labour or childbirth
  2. (archaic) sorrow, sadness, pain, woe (used in interjections of despair or annoyance)

Derived terms

  • (sorrow): o wee, ach en wee, heimwee

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: wee

Anagrams

  • Ewe

Kikuyu

Pronoun

wee (second person singular)

  1. alternative spelling of we (“you, thou”)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *wē, from Proto-West Germanic *wai.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /weː/

Interjection

wêe

  1. woe!

Descendants

  • Dutch: wee

Adjective

wêe

  1. unpleasant, painful

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: wee

Noun

wêe f

  1. pain

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: wee
  • Limburgish: wieë

Further reading

  • “wee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “wee (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Middle English

Noun

wee

  1. alternative form of we (“woe”)

Scots

Etymology

Inherited from Old English wēġ(e), wǣġ (unit of weight).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wiː/

Adjective

wee (comparative weer, superlative weest)

  1. small, little, tiny

References

  • “wee, n.1, adj., adv.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

Yola

Etymology 1

From Middle English wiþ, from Old English wiþ.

Alternative forms

  • wie, wi, wi', w', wough

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wiː/, /wɪ/, /w/, /wuː/
  • Homophone: wye

Preposition

wee

  1. with
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronoun

wee

  1. alternative form of wough (“we”)

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 77

Yoruba

Etymology

Clipping of ìwé. Cognates with Yoruba èyí, Ìkálẹ̀ Yoruba ìyí.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wèé/

Determiner

wèé

  1. (Ijebu) this

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