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Is dust a Scrabble word?

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

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

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4-letter words (2 found)

DUST,STUD,

3-letter words (3 found)

SUD,UDS,UTS,

2-letter words (3 found)

ST,US,UT,

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

All 4 letters words made out of dust

dust udst dsut sdut usdt sudt duts udts dtus tdus utds tuds dstu sdtu dtsu tdsu stdu tsdu ustd sutd utsd tusd stud tsud

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

Definitions and meaning of dust

dust

Etymology

From Middle English dust, doust, from Old English dūst (“dust, dried earth reduced to powder; other dry material reduced to powder”), from the fusion of Proto-Germanic *dustą (“dust”) and *dunstą (“mist, dust, evaporation”), both from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”).

Cognate with Scots dust, dist (“dust”), Dutch duist (“pollen, dust”) and dons (“down, fuzz”), German Dust (“dust”) and Dunst (“haze”), Swedish dust (“dust”), Icelandic dust (“dust”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”). Also related to Swedish dun (“down, fluff”), Icelandic dúnn (“down, fluff”). See down.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʌst/
  • Rhymes: -ʌst
  • Homophone: dost

Noun

dust (countable and uncountable, plural dusts)

  1. Fine particles.
    1. (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
    2. (uncountable) Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
    3. (uncountable, astronomy) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
    4. (uncountable, Australia, slang, dated) Flour.
    5. (countable, obsolete) A single fine, dry particle of earth or other material; grain of dust.
  2. (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
  3. (countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
  4. (poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
  5. The earth as the resting place of the dead.
  6. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
  7. (figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
  8. (figurative) Something worthless.
  9. (figurative) A low or mean condition.
  10. (British, colloquial) Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
  11. (slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
  12. (countable) A cloud of dust.
  13. (countable, figurative) A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
  14. (countable, colloquial) A fight or row.
  15. (countable, mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
  16. (cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Russian: дуст (dust)

Translations

Verb

dust (third-person singular simple present dusts, present participle dusting, simple past and past participle dusted)

  1. (transitive) To remove dust from.
  2. (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
  3. (transitive, archaic) To make dusty, to soil with dust.
  4. (intransitive or reflexive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
  5. (transitive) To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
  6. (transitive) To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
  7. (intransitive, chiefly US slang) To leave quickly; to rush off.
  8. (transitive, obsolete) To drink up quickly; to toss off.
  9. (transitive, obsolete) To reduce to a fine powder; to pulverize, to levigate.
  10. (transitive, now colloquial or dialectal) To strike, beat, thrash.
  11. (transitive, chiefly US slang) To defeat badly, to thrash.
  12. (transitive, chiefly US slang) To kill.
  13. (transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
  14. (cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.

Derived terms

  • dust bunny
  • dust down
  • duster
  • dust off
  • dust up
  • dust someone's jacket
  • undust

Translations

See also

  • vacuum cleaner

Anagrams

  • UDTs, duts, stud

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse dust.

Noun

dust n (genitive singular dusts, uncountable)

  1. dust

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse dust.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʏst/
  • Rhymes: -ʏst

Noun

dust n (genitive singular dusts, no plural)

  1. dust
    Synonyms: ryk, duft

Declension

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • doust, duste, doste, dyste

Etymology

Forms with a long vowel are from Old English dūst, from Proto-Germanic *dunstą. Forms with a short vowel are from Old English *dust, from Proto-Germanic *dustą.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dust/, /duːst/

Noun

dust (uncountable)

  1. dust, powder
  2. dirt, grit
  3. (figurative) iota, modicum

Related terms

  • dusten (rare)
  • dusty

Descendants

  • English: dust
  • Scots: dust, dist

References

  • “dū̆st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Back-formation of dustet, from Old Norse dust (dust particle)

Noun

dust m (definite singular dusten, indefinite plural duster, definite plural dustene)

  1. (derogatory) dork, moron, fool
Synonyms
  • dustemikkel
  • tomsing
  • tosk
  • tufs
  • støv

Etymology 2

From Old Norse dust.

Noun

dust f or m (definite singular dusta or dusten, indefinite plural duster, definite plural dustene)

  1. dust (fine, dry particles)

References

  • “dust” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dust (dust particle), compare with dustete.

Noun

dust m (definite singular dusten, indefinite plural dustar, definite plural dustane)

  1. (derogatory) dork, moron, fool
Synonyms
  • dustemikkel
  • tomsing
  • tosk
  • tufs
  • støv

Etymology 2

From Old Norse dust.

Noun

dust f (definite singular dusta, indefinite plural duster, definite plural dustene)

  1. dust (fine, dry particles)

References

  • “dust” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dunstą (“dust, vapour”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“vapour, smoke”). Akin to Hindi धुआं (dhuā̃, “smoke”), Middle Dutch dost, donst, duust (Dutch dons, duist), Old High German tunst, dunst (German Dunst), Low German dust, Icelandic dust, Norwegian dust, Danish dyst.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /duːst/

Noun

dūst n

  1. dust; powder; mill dust

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: dust, doust
    • English: dust
    • Scots: dust, dist

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dustą.

Noun

dust n

  1. dust particle

Descendants

  • Icelandic: dust
  • Faroese: dust
  • Norwegian: dust
  • Swedish: dust
  • Danish: dyst

References

  • “dust”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From English dust.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t̪us̪t̪/

Noun

dust m (genitive singular dust, no plural)

  1. dust

Usage notes

  • Also used figuratively for corpse.

Synonyms

  • duslach
  • stùr

Derived terms

  • dustach
  • dustaig
  • dustair

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish dust, duster, diost, from Middle Low German dust, diost, from Old French joste, juste, from Latin juxta. Cognate of Danish dyst, French joute.

Noun

dust c

  1. a joust
  2. (figuratively) a (minor) verbal or physical confrontation, a bout, a tussle, a run-in

Declension

References

  • dust in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • dust in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • dust in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  • dust in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Zazaki

Noun

dust

  1. side; one half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
  2. to level

Derived terms

  • dustê
  • dusta

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