1. Home
  2. Scrabble Dictionary. Word Meaning and Points

Gadget in Scrabble and Meaning

Lookup Word Points and Definitions

What does gadget mean? Is gadget a Scrabble word?

How many points in Scrabble is gadget worth? gadget how many points in Words With Friends? What does gadget mean? Get all these answers on this page.

Scrabble® and Words with Friends® points for gadget

See how to calculate how many points for gadget.

Is gadget a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gadget is a Scrabble US word. The word gadget is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

G2A1D2G2E1T1

Is gadget a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gadget is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

G2A1D2G2E1T1

Is gadget a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word gadget is a Words With Friends word. The word gadget is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

G3A1D2G3E1T1

Our tools

Valid words made from Gadget

Jump to...

Results

6-letter words (2 found)

GADGET,TAGGED,

5-letter words (3 found)

GADGE,GAGED,GATED,

4-letter words (12 found)

AGED,DATE,EGAD,GADE,GAED,GAGE,GATE,GEAT,GETA,TAED,TEAD,TEGG,

3-letter words (20 found)

AGE,ATE,DAE,DAG,DEG,EAT,EGG,ETA,GAD,GAE,GAG,GAT,GED,GET,TAD,TAE,TAG,TEA,TED,TEG,

2-letter words (11 found)

AD,AE,AG,AT,DA,DE,EA,ED,ET,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 49 words from gadget according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gadget

gadget

Etymology

Unknown. First used in print by Robert Brown in 1886 (see quote in definition section). Might come from French gâchette or gagée, or from the French family name Gaget, an industrialist who produced promotional gadgets in collaboration with the project to build the statue of Liberty.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡædʒɪt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɡæd͡ʒət/
  • Hyphenation: gad‧get
  • Rhymes: -ædʒɪt

Noun

gadget (plural gadgets)

  1. (obsolete) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
  2. Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.
  3. (informal) Any consumer electronics product.
  4. (computing) A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert execution to a memory location chosen by the attacker.
    • Security > Red Hat > CVE Database > CVE-2019-1125
      A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts.
  5. (computer science) A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem. Used in constructing reductions.
    We reduce an instance of 3-SAT to an instance of bird-flock-optimization, using a gadget that converts each conjunctive Boolean clause to a group of birds.

Alternative forms

  • gadjet

Synonyms

  • contraption
  • contrivance
  • doohickey
  • gizmo
  • widget

Derived terms

  • gadgetbahn
  • gadgety

Translations

Further reading

  • gadget on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • dagget, tagged

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English gadget, itself of French origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡa.dʒɛt/

Noun

gadget m (plural gadgets)

  1. gadget

Synonyms

  • truc
  • machin

Further reading

  • “gadget”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English gadget.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡad.d͡ʒet/
  • Rhymes: -addʒet

Noun

gadget m (invariable)

  1. gadget (small device)

References

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English gadget.

Noun

gadget n (plural gadgeturi)

  1. gadget

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English gadget.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aʝet

Noun

gadget m (plural gadgets)

  1. gadget

Source: wiktionary.org