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Is blunt a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word blunt is a Scrabble US word. The word blunt is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is blunt a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word blunt is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

B3L1U1N1T1

Is blunt a Words With Friends word?

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

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5-letter words (1 found)

BLUNT,

4-letter words (2 found)

BUNT,LUNT,

3-letter words (7 found)

BUN,BUT,LUN,NUB,NUT,TUB,TUN,

2-letter words (3 found)

NU,UN,UT,

You can make 13 words from blunt according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of blunt

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Definitions and meaning of blunt

blunt

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /blʌnt/
  • Rhymes: -ʌnt

Etymology 1

From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt (attested in the derivative Blunta (male personal name) (> English surnames Blunt, Blount)), probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to doze”) (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde).

Adjective

blunt (comparative blunter, superlative bluntest)

  1. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
  2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
  3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
    The blunt admission that he had never liked my company.
  4. Hard to impress or penetrate.
    • December 30, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
      I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.
  5. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
Synonyms
  • (having a thick edge or point): dull, pointless, coarse
  • (dull in understanding): stupid, obtuse
  • (abrupt in address): curt, short, rude, brusque, impolite, uncivil, harsh
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

blunt (plural blunts)

  1. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
  2. A short needle with a strong point.
  3. (smoking, slang, US) A marijuana cigar.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette
  4. (UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) money
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:money
  5. A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English blunten, blonten, from the adjective (see above).

Verb

blunt (third-person singular simple present blunts, present participle blunting, simple past and past participle blunted)

  1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
  2. (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
    It blunted my appetite.
    My feeling towards her have been blunted.
Synonyms
  • blunten
Translations

See also

  • bluntly
  • dull

Further reading

  • “blunt”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  • “blunt”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  • “blunt”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “blunt”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Old French

Etymology

From Frankish *blund, from Proto-Germanic *blundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /blunt/

Adjective

blunt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular blunde)

  1. Alternative form of blont

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English blunt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /blant/
  • Rhymes: -ant
  • Syllabification: blunt

Noun

blunt m animal

  1. (slang) Alternative spelling of blant

Declension

Further reading

  • blunt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • blunt in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English blunt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈblant/ [ˈblãn̪t̪]
  • Rhymes: -ant

Noun

blunt m (plural blunts)

  1. blunt (a marijuana cigar)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.


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