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Is ferment a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word ferment is a Scrabble US word. The word ferment is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is ferment a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word ferment is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

F4E1R1M3E1N1T1

Is ferment a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word ferment is a Words With Friends word. The word ferment is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

FERMENT,

5-letter words (11 found)

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4-letter words (37 found)

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3-letter words (27 found)

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2-letter words (11 found)

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1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 88 words from ferment according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ferment

ferment

English

Etymology

From Middle English ferment, from Middle French ferment, from Latin fermentāre (“to leaven, ferment”), from fermentum (“substance causing fermentation”), from fervēre (“to boil, seethe”). See also fervent.

Pronunciation

  • (verb):
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fəˈmɛnt/
    • (General American) IPA(key): /fɚˈmɛnt/
    • Rhymes: -ɛnt
  • (noun):
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɜː.mɛnt/
    • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɚ.mɛnt/

Verb

ferment (third-person singular simple present ferments, present participle fermenting, simple past and past participle fermented)

  1. To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
  2. To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.

Synonyms

  • yeast (verb)

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

ferment (plural ferments)

  1. Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
  2. A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
    • 14 November, 1770, Junius, letter to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield
      The nation is in a ferment.
    • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 104
      Clad in a Persian-Renaissance gown and a widow's tiara of white batiste, Mrs Thoroughfare, in all the ferment of a Marriage-Christening, left her chamber on vapoury autumn day and descending a few stairs, and climbing a few others, knocked a trifle brusquely at her son's wife's door.
  3. A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
  4. A catalyst.

Translations

See also

  • foment

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “ferment”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  • “ferment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • Fermentation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • fretmen

French

Pronunciation

Verb

ferment

  1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of fermer

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fermentum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛr.mɛnt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrmɛnt
  • Syllabification: fer‧ment

Noun

ferment m inan

  1. ferment, unrest
  2. (archaic, biochemistry) enzyme
    Synonym: enzym

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

  • ferment in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ferment in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ferment, from Latin fermentum.

Noun

ferment m (plural fermenți)

  1. ferment

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org