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Is grist a Scrabble word?

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

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Is grist a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is grist a Words With Friends word?

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

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5-letter words (5 found)

GIRTS,GRIST,GRITS,STRIG,TRIGS,

4-letter words (10 found)

GIRT,GIST,GITS,GRIS,GRIT,RIGS,RITS,STIR,TIGS,TRIG,

3-letter words (11 found)

GIS,GIT,ITS,RIG,RIT,SIG,SIR,SIT,SRI,TIG,TIS,

2-letter words (6 found)

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

You can make 32 words from grist according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of grist

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Definitions and meaning of grist

grist

Etymology

From Middle English grist, gryst, from Old English grist, gyrst (“the action of grinding, corn for grinding, gnashing”), from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *gredaną (“to crunch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrew- (“to rub, grind”). Cognate with Old Saxon gristgrimmo (“gnashing of the teeth”), German Griesgram (“a grumbler, a grouch, peevishness, misery”), Old English gristel (“gristle”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɹɪst/
  • Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

grist (countable and uncountable, plural grists)

  1. Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
  2. (obsolete) A group of bees.
  3. (colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.
  4. (ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
  5. (figurative) Ellipsis of grist for the mill.

Derived terms

  • grist mill / gristmill
  • grist for the mill (chiefly US)
  • grist to the mill (chiefly UK)

Related terms

  • gristle

Translations

Verb

grist (third-person singular simple present grists, present participle gristing, simple past and past participle gristed)

  1. (transitive) To grind in a mill.

Anagrams

  • Grits, girts, grits, strig, trigs

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

grist

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • grisa, griset

Verb

grist

  1. past participle of grise

Slovene

Verb

grȋst

  1. supine of gristi

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