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Is dunt a Scrabble word?

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

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Is dunt a Scrabble UK word?

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

D2U1N1T1

Is dunt a Words With Friends word?

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

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4-letter words (2 found)

DUNT,TUND,

3-letter words (3 found)

DUN,NUT,TUN,

2-letter words (3 found)

NU,UN,UT,

You can make 8 words from dunt according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dunt

dunt udnt dnut ndut undt nudt dutn udtn dtun tdun utdn tudn dntu ndtu dtnu tdnu ntdu tndu untd nutd utnd tund ntud tnud

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

Definitions and meaning of dunt

dunt

Etymology 1

From Middle English dunt, dynt, from Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe, thud, the mark or noise of a blow, a bruise, noise, crash”), from Proto-West Germanic *dunti, from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“shock, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt (“stroke”). Doublet of dent and dint.

Noun

dunt (plural dunts)

  1. (Scotland) A stroke; a dull-sounding blow.

Verb

dunt (third-person singular simple present dunts, present participle dunting, simple past and past participle dunted)

  1. (Scotland) To strike; give a blow to; knock.

Etymology 2

Noun

dunt (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dialect) The disease gid or sturdy in sheep.

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

  • dun't

Contraction

dunt

  1. (Yorkshire) Pronunciation spelling of don't.

References

  • OED 2nd edition 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

dunt

  1. inflection of dunnen:
    1. second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. (archaic) plural imperative

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

dunt

  1. past participle of dynja

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *de unde, from Latin dē + unde.

Preposition

dunt

  1. of; of which; of whom

Usage notes

  • Like French dont, may be translated by of whom when it refers to a person and of which when it does not.

Descendants

  • Middle French: dont
    • French: dont

Source: wiktionary.org