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Is colt a Scrabble word?

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

C3O1L1T1

Is colt a Scrabble UK word?

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

C3O1L1T1

Is colt a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word colt is a Words With Friends word. The word colt is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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Valid words made from Colt

You can make 8 words from 'colt' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.


4 letters words from 'colt'

CLOT 6COLT 6

3 letters words from 'colt'

COL 5COT 5
LOT 3TOC 5

2 letters words from 'colt'

LO 2TO 2

All 4 letters words made out of colt

colt oclt clot lcot olct loct cotl octl ctol tcol otcl tocl clto lcto ctlo tclo ltco tlco oltc lotc otlc tolc ltoc tloc

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word colt. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in colt.

Definitions and meaning of colt

colt

Etymology

From Middle English colt, from Old English colt (“young donkey, young camel”), from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, boy, lad”). Related to child.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kəʊlt/, [kɔʊlt], (also) /kɒlt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /koʊlt/
  • Rhymes: -əʊlt

Noun

colt (plural colts)

  1. A young male horse.
    Coordinate term: filly
  2. A young crane (bird).
  3. (figurative) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
    • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, I. ii. 38:
      Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but / talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to / his own good parts that he can shoe him himself.
  4. (nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
  5. (biblical) A young camel or donkey.

Derived terms

  • colt's tooth

Translations

Verb

colt (third-person singular simple present colts, present participle colting, simple past and past participle colted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.
    • 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Cymbeline, II. iv. 133:
      Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To befool.
    • 1594, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, II. ii. 36:
      What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
  3. To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
    • 1598, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande
      They shook off their bridles and began to colt.

Synonyms

  • (to act licentiously or wantonly): See Thesaurus:harlotize

See also

  • stallion, mare, foal, filly, horseling

Further reading

  • colt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

  • colt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

  • clot

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • colte

Etymology

From Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔlt/, /kɔːlt/

Noun

colt (plural coltes)

  1. A juvenile equid or camel; a colt.
  2. (derogatory, rare) A human child.

Descendants

  • English: colt
  • Scots: colt, cout, cowt
  • Yola: caule

References

  • “colt (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.

Source: wiktionary.org
  • to cheat, defraud.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)
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