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Yes. The word end is a Scrabble US word. The word end is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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3-letter words (3 found)

DEN,END,NED,

2-letter words (4 found)

DE,ED,EN,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

All 3 letters words made out of end

end ned edn den nde dne

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Definitions and meaning of end

end

Alternative forms

  • ende (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos, from *h₂ent- (front, forehead).

See also Dutch einde, German Ende, Norwegian ende, Swedish ände; also Old Irish ét (end, point), Latin antiae (forelock), Albanian anë (side), Ancient Greek ἀντίος (antíos, opposite), Sanskrit अन्त्य (antya, last). More at and and anti-.

The verb is from Middle English enden, endien, from Old English endian (to end, to make an end of, complete, finish, abolish, destroy, come to an end, die), from Proto-Germanic *andijōną (to finish, end), denominative from *andijaz.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ĕnd, IPA(key): /ɛnd/
  • ("to end")
  • (dialectal, obsolete) enPR: ēnd, IPA(key): /iːnd/
  • (pinpen merger) IPA(key): /ɪnd/
  • Homophone: Ind (pin–pen merger)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnd, -ɪnd

Noun

end (plural ends)

  1. The terminal point of something in space or time.
  2. (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
  3. (by extension) Death.
    • 1732, Alexander Pope, (epitaph) On Mr. Gay, in Westminster Abbey:
      A safe companion and an easy friend / Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.
  4. The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
  5. Result.
    • 1876, Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (volume 4, issue 3, part 2, page 3154)
      The end was that he was thought an archfool.
  6. A purpose, goal, or aim.
    For what end should I toil?
    The end of our club is to advance conversation and friendship.
    Synonym: purpose
  7. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
  8. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
  9. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
  10. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
  11. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
  12. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
  13. (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.

Synonyms

  • (final point in space or time): conclusion, limit, terminus, termination
  • See also Thesaurus:goal

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "final point of something"): beginning, start

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Collocations

Descendants

  • Japanese: エンド

Translations

Verb

end (third-person singular simple present ends, present participle ending, simple past and past participle ended)

  1. (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
  2. (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
  3. (transitive) To finish, terminate.

Derived terms

Translations

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Anagrams

  • DEN, DNE, Den, Den., NDE, NED, Ned, den, edn., ned

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *antis/t, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂n̥t-jes/t (to plait, weave).

Verb

end (aorist enda, participle endur)

  1. (transitive) to weave
    Synonyms: vej, vegjoj
Derived terms
  • endem

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂endʰ-. probably from Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos), or from Proto-Albanian *anda

Verb

end (aorist enda, participle endur)

  1. (intransitive) to bloom, blossom
  2. (transitive) to flyblow
Derived terms
  • endëc
Related terms
  • endë

References

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse en, earlier an, probably from Proto-Germanic *þan (then), like English than, German denn (than, for). For the loss of þ-, compare Old Norse at (that) from Proto-Germanic *þat (that).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛn/

Conjunction

end

  1. than (in comparisons)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse enn, from Proto-Germanic *andi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entí.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛn/

Adverb

end

  1. still (archaic)
  2. (with interrogatives) no matter, ever
  3. even (in the modern language only in the combination end ikke "not even")

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛnˀ/

Verb

end

  1. imperative of ende

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ende (end) with apocope of the final -e.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛnt/
  • Hyphenation: end
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

end n (plural enden, diminutive endje n)

  1. end
  2. travel distance
  3. a short length of something (such as a stick or a rope)

Usage notes

The form end is more informal than both einde and eind and is mainly used colloquially.

Synonyms

  • einde
  • eind

Anagrams

  • den

Estonian

Pronoun

end

  1. partitive singular of ise

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ende.

Noun

end

  1. Alternative form of ende

Etymology 2

From Old English endian.

Verb

end

  1. Alternative form of enden

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛnd/, /ɛn/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnd, -ɛn
  • Hyphenation: end
  • Homophone: enn

Verb

end

  1. imperative of ende

Anagrams

  • den, ned

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

end

  1. imperative of enda

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German ende, from Old High German enti.

Pronunciation

Noun

end n

  1. end

Antonyms

  • ofaong

Source: wiktionary.org