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Is frost a Scrabble word?

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

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

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5-letter words (2 found)

FORTS,FROST,

4-letter words (9 found)

FORT,FROS,ORFS,ORTS,ROST,ROTS,SOFT,SORT,TORS,

3-letter words (9 found)

FOR,FRO,OFT,ORF,ORS,ORT,ROT,SOT,TOR,

2-letter words (6 found)

OF,OR,OS,SO,ST,TO,

You can make 26 words from frost according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of frost

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Definitions and meaning of frost

frost

Alternative forms

  • froste (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”). Cognate with West Frisian froast (“frost”), Dutch vorst (“frost”), German Frost (“frost”), Swedish frost (“frost”), Norwegian frost (“frost”), Icelandic frost (“frost”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow”). Related to freeze.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɹɒst/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /fɹɔst/
  • (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /fɹɑst/
  • Rhymes: -ɒst, -ɔːst

Noun

frost (countable and uncountable, plural frosts)

  1. A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
  2. The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
  3. (figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
  4. (obsolete) The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.
  5. A shade of white, like that of frost.
  6. (slang, dated) A disappointment; a cheat.
  7. (television) A kind of light diffuser.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

frost (third-person singular simple present frosts, present participle frosting, simple past and past participle frosted)

  1. (transitive) To cover with frost.
  2. (intransitive) To become covered with frost.
  3. (transitive) To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
  4. (transitive, informal) To anger or annoy.
  5. (transitive) To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
  6. (transitive) To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.

Derived terms

  • frosting

Translations

Anagrams

  • forts, frots

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse frost.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /frɔst/, [fʁ̥ʌsd̥]

Noun

frost c (singular definite frosten, not used in plural form)

  1. frost

Declension

References

  • “frost” in Den Danske Ordbog

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse frost.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /frɔst/
  • Rhymes: -ɔst

Noun

frost n (genitive singular frosts, nominative plural frost)

  1. frost

Declension

See also

  • kuldi

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • forst, froste, vrost, frosst, freost

Etymology

From Old English frost, forst, from Proto-West Germanic *frost, from Proto-Germanic *frustaz, *frustą; akin to Middle Dutch vorst, Middle High German vrost, Middle Low German vrost, and Old Swedish frost.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /frɔst/, /fɔrst/

Noun

frost (plural frostes)

  1. Cold or freezing weather; weather causing frost.
  2. Frost or rime; frozen dew or water droplets.
  3. Hail; precipitation below freezing temperature.
  4. (rare, figurative) Something with a chilling effect.

Derived terms

  • frosty

Descendants

  • English: frost
  • Scots: frost
  • Yola: vrosth, vroste, vrast

References

  • “frost, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-31.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse frost n.

Noun

frost m (definite singular frosten)

  1. frost

Derived terms

  • frostsikker
  • frostvæske
  • rimfrost

References

  • “frost” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse frost n.

Noun

frost m (definite singular frosten)

  1. frost

Derived terms

  • frostsikker
  • frostvæske
  • rimfrost

References

  • “frost” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *frustą, *frustaz, akin to Old English frost, Old Norse frost.

Noun

frost m

  1. frost

Declension

Derived terms

  • gruntfrost

Descendants

  • Middle High German: vrost
    • Cimbrian: vròst, bròst, vrost
    • German: Frost
    • Luxembourgish: Frascht
    • Vilamovian: fröst

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *frustą, *frustaz, akin to Old English frost, Old High German frost.

Noun

frost n

  1. frost

Descendants

  • Icelandic: frost
  • Faroese: frost, frostur m (masculine is archaic)
  • Norwegian: frost
  • Old Swedish: frost
    • Swedish: frost
  • Danish: frost

References

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

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse frost, from Proto-Germanic *frustą, *frustaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

frost c

  1. frost

Declension

Anagrams

  • forst-, forts

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