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Yes. The word zeta is a Scrabble US word. The word zeta is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word zeta is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

ZETA,

3-letter words (6 found)

ATE,EAT,ETA,TAE,TEA,ZEA,

2-letter words (8 found)

AE,AT,EA,ET,TA,TE,ZA,ZE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 16 words from zeta according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of zeta

zeta ezta ztea tzea etza teza zeat ezat zaet azet eazt aezt ztae tzae zate azte taze atze etaz teaz eatz aetz taez atez

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

Definitions and meaning of zeta

zeta

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta). Doublet of zed.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈziː.tə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈzeɪtə/
  • Rhymes: -iːtə, -eɪtə

Noun

zeta (plural zetas)

  1. The sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet (Ζ (Z), ζ (z)) preceded by epsilon (Ε (E), ε (e)) and followed by eta, (Η (I), η (i)); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, in which it is preceded by digamma (Ϝ (W), ϝ (w))
  2. (mathematics) A mathematical function formally known as the Riemann zeta function.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • zate

Asturian

Alternative forms

  • ceta

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).

Noun

zeta f (plural zetes)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
  2. zeta (Greek letter)

Basque

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eta
  • Hyphenation: ze‧ta

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish zeta.

Noun

zeta inan

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
  2. zeta (Greek letter)
Declension
See also
  • (Latin-script letter names) a, be, ze, de, e, efe, ge, hatxe, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, ku, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve bikoitz, ixa, i greko, zeta

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin saeta (“bristle, silk”).

Noun

zeta inan

  1. silk
    Synonym: ziriku
Declension
Derived terms

Further reading

  • "zeta" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
  • “zeta” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈzɛ.tə]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈze.tə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈze.ta]

Noun

zeta f (plural zetes)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
  2. the Greek letter Ζ (lowercase ζ)

Further reading

  • “zeta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “zeta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “zeta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “zeta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtsetɑ/, [ˈts̠e̞t̪ɑ̝]
  • IPA(key): /ˈzetɑ/, [ˈze̞t̪ɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -etɑ
  • Syllabification(key): ze‧ta

Noun

zeta

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.

Declension

Galician

Alternative forms

  • ceta

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).

Pronunciation

Noun

zeta m (plural zetas)

  1. zee/zed (name of the letter Z, z)

Hawaiian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

zeta

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.

Icelandic

Alternative forms

  • seta

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛːta/
  • Rhymes: -ɛːta
  • Homophone: seta

Noun

zeta f (genitive singular zetu, nominative plural zetur)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
  2. zeta (Greek letter)

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From the Latin zēta, from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta), from Hebrew זין (zayin).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): */ˈd͡zɛ.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɛta
  • Hyphenation: zè‧ta

Noun

zeta m or f (invariable)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.; zed, zee
  2. the name of the Greek script letter Ζ/ζ; zeta

Derived terms

  • dalla a alla zeta

See also

  • (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, gei / i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu / vi, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon / i greca, zeta

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈzeː.ta/, [ˈd̪͡z̪eːt̪ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ze.ta/, [ˈd̪͡z̪ɛːt̪ä]

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).

Noun

zēta f (indeclinable)

  1. The name of the Greek letter zeta (Ζ, ζ).
  2. The name of the letter Z.
Coordinate terms
  • (Latin-script letter names) littera; ā, bē, cē, dē, ē, ef, gē, hā / *acca, ī, kā, el, em, en, ō, pē, kū, er, es, tē, ū, ix / īx / ex, ȳ / ī graeca / ȳpsīlon, zēta
Descendants

References

  • “zeta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • zeta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • zeta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Latin Grammar (3rd ed., 1895), 1:
    The Latin names for the letters… For Y the sound was used, for Z the Greek name (zēta).

Etymology 2

In third- and fourth-century writings of the Late Latin period, Z often represented word-initial prevocalic di.

Noun

zēta f (genitive zētae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) manuscript variant of diaeta
Declension

First-declension noun.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • dzeta (uncommon)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ze‧ta

Noun

zeta m (plural zetas)

  1. zeta (name of the Greek letter Ζ, ζ)

See also

  • zê

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French zèta.

Noun

zeta m (plural zeta)

  1. zeta

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).

Noun

zȇta n (Cyrillic spelling зе̑та)

  1. zeta; the Greek letter Ζ, ζ
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

zeta (Cyrillic spelling зета)

  1. genitive/accusative singular of zet

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθeta/ [ˈθe.t̪a]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈseta/ [ˈse.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -eta
  • Syllabification: ze‧ta
  • Homophone: (Latin America) seta

Etymology 1

From Latin zēta or its etymon, Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).

Noun

zeta f (plural zetas)

  1. the letter Z
  2. zeta; the Greek letter Ζ, ζ
    Synonyms: dseda, dseta

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θῆτα (thêta).

Noun

zeta f (plural zetas)

  1. theta; the Greek letter Θ, θ
    Synonyms: theta, tita

Further reading

  • “zeta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish zeta, the Spanish name of the letter Z/z, from Latin zēta or Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈseta/, [ˈsɛ.tɐ]
  • Rhymes: -eta
  • Syllabification: ze‧ta

Noun

zeta (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜆ) (historical)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z, in the Abecedario.
    Synonym: (in the Filipino alphabet) zi

Source: wiktionary.org