tea: meaning and words from its letters
3 letters · 3 letter points · starts with T · ends with A
Meaning of tea
noun
- uncountable
The tea plant (Camellia sinensis); (countable) a variety of this plant.
Example: Darjeeling tea is grown in India.
- uncountable
The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; (countable) a variety of such leaves.
Example: Go to the supermarket and buy some Darjeeling tea.
- uncountable
The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water.
Example: Would you like some tea?
- Southern-US, countable, uncountable
Specifically sweet tea, an iced tea supersaturated with sugar.
Listed forms: teas, tay.
Source: Wiktionary — tea.
verb
- intransitive
To drink tea.
- intransitive
To take afternoon tea (a light meal).
- transitive
To give tea to.
Listed forms: teas, teaing, teaed, tead, tay.
Source: Wiktionary — tea.
adj
- slang
Good-looking, sexy.
Listed forms: tay.
Source: Wiktionary — tea.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for tea.
noun
a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes
- afternoon tea
- teatime
noun
a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves
- Camellia sinensis
noun
dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea
- tea leaf
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is tea in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of tea
T(1) + E(1) + A(1) = 3 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of tea
4 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from tea
3 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in tea. Showing up to 24, longest first.