TE is a valid Scrabble word — 2 points
Yes. TE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 2 points in Scrabble and 2 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 54 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TE is to know. It scores 2 from 2 tiles, takes 16 hooks, and its letters make up 9.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TE scores
Face value of the 2 tiles in TE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 2 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 69.
What stands out about TE
- TE is one of just 133 words of 2 letters in the four lists we check — a short list worth knowing by heart.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does TE mean in Scrabble?
noun
music
The step just below doh at the top of the scale, sung with an upward pull that British choir sheets spell te where American ones write ti.
Te is the last step before the scale comes home to doh, and singers know it as the note that leans upward and will not sit still. British teaching sheets write te where American ones write ti, which is why both spellings are in circulation. Names like te were invented for sight-singing rather than for writing music down.
How TE is used
Names a step of the scale, so it takes the: sing on the te, rise to the te.
- The line rises to te and stops there.
- He could not hold te in tune.
- The choir held te for a whole bar before the final chord.
- She marked te above the last note of the phrase.
- Ask them to sing doh, ray, me, fah, soh, lah, te.
- A flattened te gives the tune its uneasy colour.
- In her books the note is spelled te, not ti.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TE and 7 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see TE
- Te is the chemical symbol for tellurium, element 52, whose name comes from the Latin word for earth.
- In New Zealand te is the Maori word for the, and it opens official names such as te reo for the language itself.
Anagrams of TE
The 2 tiles of TE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with TE
Showing 24 of more than 2000 words that begin with TE.
Words ending in TE
Showing 24 of 4204 words that end in TE. Useful as a back hook: play TE onto a word already on the board.
Words with TE inside
Showing 24 of 23984 words that contain TE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with TE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Common questions about TE
- Is TE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TE, where it scores 2 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TE worth?
- TE is worth 2 points in Scrabble and 2 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TE mean?
- The step just below doh at the top of the scale, sung with an upward pull that British choir sheets spell te where American ones write ti.
- What letters can be added to TE?
- TE takes 16 hooks: 2 in front and 14 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 2 letters of TE:
Open TE in the Word Finder