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Is dirt a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dirt is a Scrabble US word. The word dirt is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

D2I1R1T1

Is dirt a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dirt is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

D2I1R1T1

Is dirt a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word dirt is a Words With Friends word. The word dirt is worth 5 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

D2I1R1T1

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4-letter words (1 found)

DIRT,

3-letter words (4 found)

DIT,RID,RIT,TID,

2-letter words (4 found)

DI,ID,IT,TI,

You can make 9 words from dirt according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of dirt

dirt

English

Alternative forms

  • durt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English drit (“excrement”), from Old Norse drit (“excrement”), from Proto-Germanic *dritą, *dritō (“excrement”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd-, *treydʰ- (“to have diarrhea”). Cognate with Norwegian dritt (“excrement”), dialectal Swedish dret (“shit”), Icelandic drit (“bird excrement”), Dutch drijten (“to defecate”), drits (“dirt, mud, filth”) and drijt, dreet (“excrement”), Low German drieten (“to defecate”), Driet (“shit”), regional German Driss (“shit”), Old English ġedrītan (“to defecate”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dû(r)t, IPA(key): /dɜːt/
  • (General American) enPR: dûrt, IPA(key): /dɝt/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

Noun

dirt (usually uncountable, plural dirts)

  1. (chiefly US) Soil or earth.
  2. A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
    Synonym: filth
  3. Previously unknown facts or rumors about a person.
    Synonyms: gossip, kompromat
  4. (figurative) Meanness; sordidness.
  5. (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
  6. Freckles.
  7. (archaic) Excrement; dung.

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Verb

dirt (third-person singular simple present dirts, present participle dirting, simple past and past participle dirted)

  1. (transitive, rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty

Anagrams

  • tri-D

Source: wiktionary.org