Wee in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Wee

You can make 7 words from 'wee' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'wee'
• 2 letters words from 'wee'

3 letters words from 'wee'

EEW 6	EWE 6
WEE 6

2 letters words from 'wee'

EE 2	EW 5
WE 5

Definitions and meaning of wee

wee

Pronunciation

• enPR: wē, IPA^(key): /wiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: oui, we, whee (in accents with the wine-whine merger), Wii

Etymology 1

From Middle English wey, weygh, wegh, weȝe, wæȝe (“little bit”), from Old English wǣġ, wǣġe (“weight”), 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) Small, little.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 73:

     I had not seen a wee boy do it like that before. He was weer than me and his swimming was just like splashing about.

   You looked a little cold, so I lit a wee fire.

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 (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, uncountable) Urine.
2. (colloquial) 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. (colloquial) To urinate.

Synonyms

• wee-wee, see also Thesaurus:urinate

Derived terms

• wee-wee

Translations

Etymology 3

• see we

Pronoun

wee (personal pronoun)

1. obsolete emphatic of we
   • 1645 Marhc, John Milton, Tetrachordon.

Anagrams

• Ewe, eew, ewe

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Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /weː/

Verb

wee

1. (transitive) to lack

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil, L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), 2015

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Inflection

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

Anagrams

• Ewe

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Kikuyu

Pronoun

wee (second person singular)

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

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *wē, from Proto-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^[2], 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J., “wee (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek‎^[3], The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1885–1929, →ISBN, page I

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Middle English

Noun

wee

1. Alternative form of we (“woe”)

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Scots

Pronunciation

• enPR: wē, IPA^(key): /wiː/

Adjective

wee (comparative weer, superlative weest)

1. (standard, Ulster) small, little, tiny

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Yola

Pronoun

wee

1. we

Preposition

wee

1. with

References

Jacob Poole, 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, J. Russell Smith, 1867, →ISBN

Source: wiktionary.org

• the married state.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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