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Is gant a Scrabble word?

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

G2A1N1T1

Is gant a Scrabble UK word?

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

G2A1N1T1

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4-letter words (3 found)

GANT,GNAT,TANG,

3-letter words (7 found)

ANT,GAN,GAT,NAG,NAT,TAG,TAN,

2-letter words (5 found)

AG,AN,AT,NA,TA,

You can make 15 words from gant according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gant

gant

Breton

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡãnt/

Etymology 1

From Old Breton cant, from Proto-Celtic *kanta (“together with”). Cognate with Welsh gan (“with; by”).

Preposition

gant

  1. with
Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Numeral

gant

  1. soft mutation of kant

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French guant, from Frankish *want (compare Middle Dutch want, Old High German wantus), from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove”). Cognate with Italian guanto, Spanish guante, and Catalan guant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɑ̃/

Noun

gant m (plural gants)

  1. glove

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Greek: γάντι (gánti)

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

From Old French guant, from Frankish *want, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove”).

Noun

gant m (plural gants)

  1. (Jersey) glove

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan guant, from Frankish *want, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove”).

Pronunciation

Noun

gant m (plural gants)

  1. glove

Scots

Etymology

The verb is possibly derived from Middle English *ganten, from Old English *gānettan, a frequentative of gānian (“to gape, open, open wide; to yawn”) (whence Middle English ganen, gane, gonen), from Proto-West Germanic *gainōn (“to yawn”), from Proto-Germanic *gainōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to gape; to yawn”).

The noun is derived from the verb.

Verb

gant (third-person singular simple present gants, present participle gantin, simple past gantt, past participle gantt) (intransitive)

  1. To open the mouth wide to breathe; to gasp.
  2. To yawn.
  3. (figurative)
    1. Of a thing: to open wide; to gape.
    2. To make exaggerated statements.
  4. (Caithness) To stammer, to stutter.

Alternative forms

  • gaunt

Noun

gant (plural gants)

  1. A yawn.
  2. (Caithness) A stammer, a stutter.

Alternative forms

  • gaunt

References

Welsh

Noun

gant

  1. soft mutation of cant

Mutation


Source: wiktionary.org