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Is boot a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word boot is a Scrabble US word. The word boot is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

B3O1O1T1

Is boot a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word boot is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

B3O1O1T1

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Yes. The word boot is a Words With Friends word. The word boot is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

BOOT,

3-letter words (5 found)

BOO,BOT,OBO,OOT,TOO,

2-letter words (4 found)

BO,OB,OO,TO,

You can make 10 words from boot according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of boot

boot obot boot obot oobt oobt boto obto btoo tboo otbo tobo boto obto btoo tboo otbo tobo ootb ootb otob toob otob toob

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Definitions and meaning of boot

boot

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bo͞ot, IPA(key): /buːt/, [buːt]
  • (Northern England), IPA(key): /bʏːt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /but/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /bʉːt/
  • Rhymes: -uːt

Etymology 1

From Middle English boote, bote (“shoe”), from Old French bote (“a high, thick shoe”). Of obscure origin, but probably related to Old French bot (“club-foot”), bot (“fat, short, blunt”), from Old Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewt-, *bʰewd- (“to strike, push, shock”); if so, a doublet of butt. Compare Old Norse butt (“stump”), Low German butt (“blunt, plump”), Old English bytt (“small piece of land”), buttuc (“end”). More at buttock and debut.

Noun

boot (plural boots)

  1. A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
    1. (sports) A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
  2. A blow with the foot; a kick.
  3. (construction) A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
  4. (usually preceded by definite article) A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
  5. (US) A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
  6. (aviation) A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
  7. (obsolete) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
  8. (archaic) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
  9. (US, military, law enforcement, slang) A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
  10. (Australia, British, New Zealand, South Africa, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
  11. (informal, with definite article) The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
  12. (British, slang) An unattractive person, ugly woman.
    old boot
  13. (slang, ethnic slur) A black person.
  14. (firearms) A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
  15. (baseball) A bobbled ball.
  16. (botany) The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
  17. (slang) A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
  18. (slang, motor racing) A tyre.
  19. (US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
Synonyms
  • (shoe): buskin, mukluk
  • (blow with foot): kick
  • (car storage): trunk (US, Canada), dicky (India)
  • (parking enforcement device): wheel clamp
  • (sacked, dismissed): firing, layoff
  • (end of bread): butt, heel, ender, outsider (Scotland)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Solombala English: бучь (bučʹ)
  • → Russian: бутса (butsa)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: бу́це
    Latin script: búce
  • → Swahili: buti
Translations

Verb

boot (third-person singular simple present boots, present participle booting, simple past and past participle booted)

  1. (transitive) To kick.
  2. To put boots on, especially for riding.
  3. (colloquial, Canada, US, usually with it) To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
    The storm is coming fast! Boot it!
    We had to boot it all the way there to get to our flight on time.
  4. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
  5. (informal) To eject; kick out.
    We need to boot those troublemakers as soon as possible.
    The senator was booted from the committee for unethical behavior.
  6. (computing, informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
  7. (slang) To vomit.
    Sorry, I didn’t mean to boot all over your couch.
  8. (MLE, criminal slang) To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
Usage notes

The more common term for “to eject from a chatroom” etc. is kick.

Synonyms
  • (kick): hoof, kick
  • (disconnect from online conversation): kick
Derived terms
  • boot up the backside, boot up the bum
  • booting
  • boot one
  • boot out
  • boot time
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English boote, bote, bot, from Old English bōt (“help, relief, advantage”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“atonement, improvement”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰed- (“good”).

Akin to Old Norse bót (“bettering, remedy”) (Danish bod), Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐌰 (bōta), German Buße. Doublet of bote (a borrowing from Middle English).

Noun

boot (countable and uncountable, plural boots)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) Remedy, amends.
  2. (uncountable) Profit, plunder.
  3. (countable, uncountable) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
  4. (obsolete) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
  5. (obsolete) Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings. [to mid-17th c.]
  6. (obsolete) A medicinal cure or remedy. [to mid-16th c.]
Derived terms
  • bootless
  • to boot
Translations

Verb

boot (third-person singular simple present boots, present participle booting, simple past and past participle booted) (archaic)

  1. (transitive or intransitive, impersonal) To be beneficial, to help.
    • 1678 Richard Hooker, “A Sermon found in the study of Bishop Andrews” in Izaak Walton, The Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln, London: Richard Marriot, p. 262,[3]
      What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them?
  2. (intransitive, impersonal) To matter; to be relevant.
  3. (transitive, rare) To enrich.
Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping of bootstrap.

Noun

boot (plural boots)

  2. (computing) The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

boot (third-person singular simple present boots, present participle booting, simple past and past participle booted)

  2. (computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
    Synonyms: bootstrap, boot up, start
    Antonyms: shut down, stop, turn off
Derived terms
  • reboot
Translations

Etymology 4

From bootleg (“to make or sell illegally”), by shortening.

Noun

boot (plural boots)

  1. (informal) A bootleg recording.
Translations

Anagrams

  • OOTB, boto

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch boot.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʊət/, [buə̯t]

Noun

boot (plural bote)

  1. boat

References

Bikol Central

Noun

boot

  1. Alternative spelling of buot

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch boot, from Middle English bot (“boat, ship”), from Old English bāt, from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /boːt/
  • (Belgium), (Southern) IPA(key): [boːt]
  • (Netherlands), (Northern, Randstad) IPA(key): [boʊt]
  • Hyphenation: boot
  • Rhymes: -oːt

Noun

boot m (plural boten, diminutive bootje n)

  1. boat

Synonyms

  • schip

Hyponyms

  • sloep, kayak, kano, pedalo

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: boot
  • Negerhollands: boot, bot
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: bot
  • → Papiamentu: boto
  • →? Sranan Tongo: boto
    • → Aukan: boto
    • → Caribbean Javanese: boṭo
    • → Lokono: botu
    • → Saramaccan: bóto

Karao

Noun

boot

  1. mold

Mansaka

Etymology

From *buut, from Proto-Austronesian *buhet.

Noun

boot

  1. squirrel

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

boot

  1. Alternative form of bote (“boot”)

Etymology 2

Noun

boot

  1. Alternative form of bote (“help, aid”)

Etymology 3

Noun

boot

  1. Alternative form of bot (“boat”)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • bute

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English boot. Doublet of bota.

Pronunciation

Noun

boot m (plural boots)

  1. (computing) boot (the act or process of bootstrapping)
  2. (Brazil, chiefly São Paulo, slang) sneaker

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:boot.

Tetum

Adjective

boot

  1. big

Woleaian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈboːti̥]

Noun

boot

  1. nose

Source: wiktionary.org