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

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

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4-letter words (3 found)

GIST,GITS,TIGS,

3-letter words (7 found)

GIS,GIT,ITS,SIG,SIT,TIG,TIS,

2-letter words (6 found)

GI,IS,IT,SI,ST,TI,

You can make 16 words from gist according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of gist

gist igst gsit sgit isgt sigt gits igts gtis tgis itgs tigs gsti sgti gtsi tgsi stgi tsgi istg sitg itsg tisg stig tsig

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Definitions and meaning of gist

gist

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /d͡ʒɪst/
  • Rhymes: -ɪst

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Old French gist, a noun use of the third person singular indicative of gesir (“to lie down”) (modern French gésir; compare Anglo-Norman (cest) action gist (literally “(law) (this) action lies”)), from Latin iacēre, the present active infinitive of iaceō (“to lie down, lie prostrate, recline”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw”) (probably in the sense of something being thrown down).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

gist (countable and uncountable, plural gists)

  1. (countable) The main idea or substance, or the most essential part, of a longer or more complicated matter; the crux, the heart, the pith.
    Synonyms: essence, quintessence; see also Thesaurus:gist
  2. (countable, law, dated) The essential ground for action in a lawsuit, without which there is no cause of action; the gravamen.
  3. (uncountable, Nigeria) Gossip, rumour; (countable) an instance of this.
Translations

Verb

gist (third-person singular simple present gists, present participle gisting, simple past and past participle gisted)

  1. (transitive) To extract and present the main ideas or substance, or the most essential parts of (a document, piece of writing, etc.); to abridge, to summarize.
    Synonyms: condense, précis
  2. (intransitive, Nigeria) To talk idly; chat; also, to gossip.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English giste, geste (“resting or stopping place, hostel, lodgings; food, refreshment; (figurative) seat of the soul”), from Old French giste (“resting place”) (modern French gîte (“lodging, shelter; self-catering holiday home”)), a noun use of the past participle form of gesir (“to lie down”): see etymology 1.

Noun

gist (plural gists)

  1. (obsolete) A stop for lodging or rest in a journey, or the place where this happens; a rest.
Alternative forms
  • gest
Derived terms
  • gists (“roll reciting the several stages of a royal progress”)

References

Further reading

  • gist (Nigerian term) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • gist (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • gist in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
  • John Bouvier (1839) “GIST”, in A Law Dictionary, […], volumes I (A–K), Philadelphia, Pa.: T. & J. W. Johnson, […], successors to Nicklin & Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 445, column 1.
  • “gist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • GTis, ISTG, gits, stig, tigs

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣɪst/
  • Hyphenation: gist
  • Rhymes: -ɪst

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gest, gist, from Old Dutch *gest, *gist, from Proto-West Germanic *jestu, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz.

Noun

gist f (plural gisten)

  1. yeast
Derived terms
  • biergist
  • gisten
  • gistzwam
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: gis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

gist

  1. inflection of gisten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

gist

  1. inflection of gissen:
    1. second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. (archaic) plural imperative

Middle English

Noun

gist

  1. Alternative form of gest

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

gist

  1. gossip, rumour

Old French

Verb

gist

  1. third-person singular present indicative of gesir

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin iūstus, jūstus.

Adjective

gist m (feminine singular gista, masculine plural gists, feminine plural gistas)

  1. right

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales) IPA(key): /ɡiːsd/, [ɡiːst]
  • (South Wales) IPA(key): /ɡɪsd/, [ɡɪst]

Noun

gist

  1. Soft mutation of cist.

Mutation

Yola

Alternative forms

  • jist, jeist

Etymology

From Middle English juste, from Old French juste.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒɪst/

Adverb

gist

  1. just, just now

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 41

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