/si/
verbinterjectionnoun

Is SEE a Scrabble word?

Yes. SEE is a valid Scrabble word in both tournament lists, NWL2023 and Collins, and in ENABLE. It scores 3 points in Scrabble and 3 in Words With Friends.

NWL Collins ENABLE

Meaning To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.

Verb 4 meanings

  1. To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.

  2. To form a mental picture of, to perceive in a certain way.

    “I see it as essential that there should be somewhere to park.”

  3. To meet, to visit.

    “You'd better see about that with the boss.”

  4. To be the setting or time of.

    “The 20th century saw humanity's first space exploration.”

Interjection 1 meaning

  1. Introducing an explanation.

    “See, in order to win the full prize we would have to come up with a scheme to land a rover on the Moon.”

Noun 3 meanings

  1. A diocese or archdiocese: a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop or an archbishop.

  2. The office of a bishop or archbishop.

  3. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign, autonomous, or autocephalous power is exercised.

Definitions adapted from Wiktionary: see via Kaikki/Wiktextract, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where it comes from

Etymology

From Middle English seen, from Old English sēon (“to see, look, behold, perceive, observe, discern, understand, know”), from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan, from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to see, notice”).

Similar and opposite words

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SEE at a glance

SEE has 3 letters and scores 3 points in Scrabble (S 1 + E 1 + E 1) and 3 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #82 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins (older SOWPODS edition).

Words ending in -SEE

More endings

Same last three letters as SEE. This is a spelling match, so not every word here rhymes.

  • OVERSEE10
  • FORESEE10
  • LICENSEE10
  • FRANCHISEE18
  • UNSEE5
  • LESSEE6
  • ADDRESSEE11
  • PHARISEE13
  • SIGHTSEE12
  • FRICASSEE14
  • FUSEE8
  • PROMISEE12

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