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Yes. The word chest is a Scrabble US word. The word chest is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (2 found)

CHEST,TECHS,

4-letter words (10 found)

ECHT,ETCH,ETHS,HEST,HETS,SECH,SECT,SHET,TECH,TECS,

3-letter words (13 found)

CHE,ECH,EHS,EST,ETH,HES,HET,SEC,SET,SHE,TEC,TES,THE,

2-letter words (8 found)

CH,EH,ES,ET,HE,SH,ST,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 34 words from chest according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of chest

chest hcest cehst echst hecst ehcst chset hcset cshet schet hscet shcet cesht ecsht cseht sceht escht secht hesct ehsct hsect shect eshct sehct chets hcets cehts echts hects ehcts chtes hctes cthes tches htces thces ceths ecths ctehs tcehs etchs techs hetcs ehtcs htecs thecs ethcs tehcs chste hcste cshte schte hscte shcte chtse hctse cthse tchse htcse thcse csthe scthe ctshe tcshe stche tsche hstce shtce htsce thsce sthce tshce cesth ecsth cseth sceth escth secth cetsh ectsh ctesh tcesh etcsh tecsh csteh scteh ctseh tcseh stceh tsceh estch setch etsch tesch stech tsech hestc ehstc hsetc shetc eshtc sehtc hetsc ehtsc htesc thesc ethsc tehsc hstec shtec htsec thsec sthec tshec esthc sethc etshc teshc stehc tsehc

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Definitions and meaning of chest

chest

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃɛst/
  • (dialectal, obsolete) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɪst/
  • Rhymes: -ɛst

Etymology 1

From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ċest, ċist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-West Germanic *kistu (“chest, box”), from Latin cista (“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “chest, box, basket, hamper”), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂ (“woven container”).

Germanic cognates include Scots kist (“chest, box, trunk, coffer”), West Frisian kiste (“box, chest”), Dutch kist (“box, case, chest, coffin”), German Kiste (“box, crate, case, chest”).

Alternative forms

  • chist (obsolete)

Noun

chest (plural chests)

  1. A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
  2. (obsolete) A coffin.
  3. The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
  4. A chest of drawers.
  6. (anatomy) The portion of the front of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the thorax. Also the analogous area in other animals.
  7. (euphemistic) A female human's breasts.
  8. A hit or blow made with one's chest.
Synonyms
  • (the thorax): breast
  • (box): trunk
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

chest (third-person singular simple present chests, present participle chesting, simple past and past participle chested)

  1. To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
  2. (transitive) To deposit in a chest.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.
Derived terms
  • chest down

Etymology 2

From Middle English chest, cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from Old English ċēast, ċēas (“strife, quarrel, quarrelling, contention, murmuring, sedition, scandal; reproof”). Related to Old Frisian kāse (“strife, contention”), Old Saxon caest (“quarrel, dispute”), Old High German kōsa (“speech, story, account”).

Noun

chest (plural chests)

  1. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.

References

Anagrams

  • Tesch, chets, techs

Friulian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eccum iste (see there for cognates), from Latin eccum (“behold”) + iste (“that”). Compare Ladin chest and Romansch quest.

Pronoun

chest m (f cheste, m pl chescj, f pl chestis)

  1. this

See also

  • chel

Ladin

Alternative forms

  • chëst

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eccum iste, from Latin eccum + iste. Compare Friulian chest, Romansch quest, Italian questo.

Adjective

chest m (feminine singular chesta, masculine plural chisc, feminine plural chestes)

  1. this
  2. (in the plural) these

Lombard

Alternative forms

  • cuest (formal variant)
  • quest (Western orthography)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eccum iste, from Latin eccum (deictic) +‎ iste (“that”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkest/
    • IPA(key): [ˈkɛs(t)], [ˈkes(t)]

Usage notes

When followed by a word starting with consonant, it's often pronounced without the ending /t/.

Determiner

chest m (feminine singular chesta, masculine plural chestj, feminine plural cheste)

  1. this

Pronoun

chest m (feminine singular chesta, masculine plural chestj, feminine plural cheste)

  1. this
  2. this one

Synonyms

  • chell chí, cuell chí

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ċeast, ceas (“quarrel, strife”).

Alternative forms

  • cheste, cheeste, cheaste, chyaste, chast

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃɛːst/
  • Rhymes: -ɛːst

Noun

chest (plural chestes)

  2. fighting, strife, battle
  3. quarrelling, disputation
  4. (rare) turmoil, discord
Descendants
  • English: chest
References
  • “chēst, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-26.

Etymology 2

Noun

chest

  2. Alternative form of geste (“tale”)

Etymology 3

Noun

chest

  2. Alternative form of cheste (“chest”)

Old French

Adjective

chest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cheste)

  1. Picardy form of cist

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /χɛst/

Verb

chest

  1. Aspirate mutation of cest.

Mutation


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