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Is dish a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dish is a Scrabble US word. The word dish is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

D2I1S1H4

Is dish a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dish is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

D2I1S1H4

Is dish a Words With Friends word?

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

D2I1S1H3

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4-letter words (2 found)

DISH,SIDH,

3-letter words (5 found)

DIS,HID,HIS,IDS,ISH,

2-letter words (6 found)

DI,HI,ID,IS,SH,SI,

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

All 4 letters words made out of dish

dish idsh dsih sdih isdh sidh dihs idhs dhis hdis ihds hids dshi sdhi dhsi hdsi shdi hsdi ishd sihd ihsd hisd shid hsid

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

Definitions and meaning of dish

dish

Etymology

From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”), from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dĭsh, IPA(key): /dɪʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪʃ

Noun

dish (countable and uncountable, plural dishes)

  1. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
    Synonym: plate
  2. The contents of such a vessel.
    Synonyms: dishful, plate, plateful
  3. (metonymically) A specific type of prepared food.
  4. (in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
  5. (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
  6. (slang) A sexually attractive person.
    Synonyms: babe, fox
  7. The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
  8. A hollow place, as in a field.
  9. (baseball, slang) The home plate.
  10. (mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
  11. (mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
  12. (slang, uncountable) Gossip.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Tok Pisin: dis

Translations

Verb

dish (third-person singular simple present dishes, present participle dishing, simple past and past participle dished)

  2. (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
  3. (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
  4. (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
  5. (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

Derived terms

  • dish out
  • dish the dirt
  • dish up
  • dished

See also

  • plate

Anagrams

  • HIDs, HSDI, SHID, shid

Source: wiktionary.org