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Is grit a Scrabble word?

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

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Is grit a Scrabble UK word?

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

G2R1I1T1

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4-letter words (3 found)

GIRT,GRIT,TRIG,

3-letter words (4 found)

GIT,RIG,RIT,TIG,

2-letter words (3 found)

GI,IT,TI,

You can make 10 words from grit according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of grit

grit rgit girt igrt rigt irgt grti rgti gtri tgri rtgi trgi gitr igtr gtir tgir itgr tigr ritg irtg rtig trig itrg tirg

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word grit. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in grit.

Definitions and meaning of grit

grit

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɹɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɪt

Etymology 1

With early modern vowel shortening, from Middle English grete, griet, from Old English grēot, from Proto-West Germanic *greut, from Proto-Germanic *greutą.

Noun

grit (uncountable)

  1. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
    1. Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
  2. Small, hard, inedible particles in food.
  3. A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
  4. (geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
  5. Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • grind
  • grindstone
  • sand, sandy, sandblasting
Translations
See also
  • debris
  • mortar and pestle
  • swarf

Verb

grit (third-person singular simple present grits, present participle gritting, simple past and past participle gritted or (nonstandard) grit)

  1. Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
  2. To cover with grit.
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
    • 1767, Oliver Goldsmith, The Hermit
      The sanded |floor that grits beneath the tread.
Derived terms
  • grit one's teeth
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English *gryt (“bran, chaff”), from Old English grytt, from Proto-West Germanic *gruti (“coarsely ground bits”), ablaut variant of Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-. See above. Doublet of goetta.

Noun

grit (plural grits)

  1. (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
  2. (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
Related terms
  • groat
  • grout
  • gruel
Translations

Anagrams

  • girt, trig

Elfdalian

Verb

grit

  1. first/second/third-person singular past indicative of gråta

Scots

Etymology

See great

Adjective

grit (comparative mair grit, superlative maist grit)

  1. great

Source: wiktionary.org