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Is hearth a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word hearth is a Scrabble US word. The word hearth is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

H4E1A1R1T1H4

Is hearth a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word hearth is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

H4E1A1R1T1H4

Is hearth a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word hearth is a Words With Friends word. The word hearth is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

H3E1A1R1T1H3

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6-letter words (1 found)

HEARTH,

5-letter words (6 found)

EARTH,HATER,HEART,HEATH,RATHE,THRAE,

4-letter words (19 found)

ARET,EATH,HAET,HARE,HART,HATE,HATH,HEAR,HEAT,HETH,RATE,RATH,RHEA,TAHR,TARE,TEAR,TEHR,THAE,THAR,

3-letter words (22 found)

ARE,ART,ATE,EAR,EAT,ERA,ETA,ETH,HAE,HAH,HAT,HEH,HER,HET,RAH,RAT,REH,RET,TAE,TAR,TEA,THE,

2-letter words (13 found)

AE,AH,AR,AT,EA,EH,ER,ET,HA,HE,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 62 words from hearth according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of hearth

hearth

Etymology

From Middle English herth, herthe, from Old English heorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *herþ, from Proto-Germanic *herþaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“heat; fire”). Cognate with West Frisian hurd, Dutch haard, German Herd, Swedish härd.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɑːθ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /hɑɹθ/
  • (obsolete, dialectal) IPA(key): /hɜːɹθ/, /hæθ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)θ

Noun

hearth (plural hearths)

  1. The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
  2. A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
  3. A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
  4. The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
  5. A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
  6. (figurative) Home or family life.
  7. (Germanic paganism) A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.

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Anagrams

  • Hertha

Yola

Alternative forms

  • hart

Etymology

From Middle English herte, from Old English heorte, from Proto-West Germanic *hertā.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hiːt/
  • Homophone: hert

Noun

hearth

  1. heart
    Synonym: core

Derived terms

  • hearthilee
  • sweethearth

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 45

Source: wiktionary.org