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Is geest a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word geest is a Scrabble US word. The word geest is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is geest a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word geest is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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Is geest a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word geest is a Words With Friends word. The word geest is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (3 found)

EGEST,GEEST,GESTE,

4-letter words (5 found)

GEES,GEST,GETS,TEES,TEGS,

3-letter words (9 found)

EST,GEE,GET,SEE,SEG,SET,TEE,TEG,TES,

2-letter words (5 found)

EE,ES,ET,ST,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 23 words from geest according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of geest

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Definitions and meaning of geest

geest

Etymology

A substantivization of Low German güst (“dry and infertile”, adjective), from Middle Low German gēst (“dry, elevated”, literally “cracking, gaping, yawning”), from Old Saxon gīnan, from Proto-West Germanic *gīnan. See also German gähnen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡiːst/
  • Rhymes: -iːst

Noun

geest (plural geests)

  1. A type of slightly raised landscape, with sandy and gravelly soils, that occurs in the plains of Northern Germany, the Northern Netherlands and Denmark.

References

Further reading

  • geest on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Teges, egest

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣeːst/
  • Hyphenation: geest
  • Rhymes: -eːst

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gêest, from Old Dutch gēst, geist, from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeysd-, *ǵʰisd- (“anger, agitation”).

Noun

geest m (plural geesten, diminutive geestje n)

  1. ghost, spirit, immaterial being
  2. mind, mental consciousness
  3. mindset, mentality
  4. life force, vital energy
  5. (alchemy) spirit, gas, distillate, essence
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: gees
  • Negerhollands: geest

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch geest, from Old Dutch *gēst, a nominalization of an adjective that meant “dry, infertile”, a derivation of Proto-Germanic *gais- (“infertile”), a root probably meaning "cracking, breaking, gaping;" see *gīnan. See also German gähnen.

Cognate to West Frisian gaast, geast (as in the Dutch/Frisian place name Gaasterland) and German Geest (which is borrowed from Low German). Other derivations of *gais- are: Old English gæsne (“infertility, poverty”), Old French gast (“waste”) and Icelandic gisinn (“dry”).

Noun

geest m (plural geesten, diminutive geestje n)

  2. heath, heathland
Derived terms

References

Anagrams

  • steeg, stege, geste

Middle English

Verb

geest

  1. Alternative form of gesten (“to read poetry”)

Source: wiktionary.org