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Is week a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word week is a Scrabble US word. The word week is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is week a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word week is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

W4E1E1K5

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Yes. The word week is a Words With Friends word. The word week is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

WEEK,

3-letter words (6 found)

EEK,EEW,EKE,EWE,EWK,WEE,

2-letter words (3 found)

EE,EW,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 11 words from week according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of week

week

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wēk, IPA(key): /wiːk/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /wik/
  • Homophone: weak
  • Rhymes: -iːk

Etymology 1

From Middle English weke, from Old English wiċe, wucu (week), from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (turn, succession, change, week), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg-, *weyk- (to bend, wind, turn, yield). Related to Proto-Germanic *wīkaną (to bend, yield, cease).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wiek, West Frisian wike, Dutch week, German Woche, Danish uge, Norwegian Nynorsk veke, Swedish vecka, Icelandic vika, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō, turn for temple service), Latin vicis, Finnish viikko. Related also to Old English wīcan (to yield, give way), English weak and wick.

Alternative forms

  • weeke (obsolete)

Noun

week (plural weeks)

  1. Any period of seven consecutive days.
  2. A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
  3. A period of five days beginning with Monday.
  4. A subdivision of the month into longer periods of work days punctuated by shorter weekend periods of days for markets, rest, or religious observation such as a sabbath.
  5. (following a named day) A date seven days after (sometimes before) the specified day.
Synonyms
  • hebdomad (historical or Christianity), sennight (archaic)
Hypernyms
  • time, day, month, year
Meronyms
  • midweek, weekday, weekend
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Maori: wiki
  • Swahili: wiki
Translations
See also
  • days of the week (appendix): Sunday · Monday · Tuesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · Saturday [edit]
  • calendar
  • Sabbath

Further reading

  • ISO 8601 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Interjection

week

  1. The squeal of a pig.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch week, from Middle Dutch weke, from Old Dutch *wika, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (to bend, wind, turn, yield). Compare English week, West Frisian wike, German Woche.

Pronunciation

Noun

week (plural weke)

  1. week
    Daar is sewe dae in die week.There are seven days in the week.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋeːk/
  • Hyphenation: week
  • Rhymes: -eːk

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wēke, from Old Dutch *wika, from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (to bend, wind, turn, yield).

Noun

week f (plural weken, diminutive weekje n)

  1. week, period of seven days
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: week
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: weki
  • Jersey Dutch: wêk
  • Negerhollands: week
  • Lokono: wiki
  • ? Sranan Tongo: wiki
    • Aukan: wiki
    • Saramaccan: wíki

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch wêec, from Old Dutch *wēk, from Proto-West Germanic *waikw, from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz.

Adjective

week (comparative weker, superlative weekst)

  1. soft, tender, fragile
  2. weak, gentle, weakhearted
Declension
Antonyms
  • hard
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Jersey Dutch: wîk

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

week

  1. inflection of weken:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Verb

week

  1. singular past indicative of wijken

Anagrams

  • kwee
  • weke

Middle English

Noun

week

  1. alternative form of weke (week)

Source: wiktionary.org