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Is heat a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word heat is a Scrabble US word. The word heat is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

H4E1A1T1

Is heat a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word heat is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

H4E1A1T1

Is heat a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word heat is a Words With Friends word. The word heat is worth 6 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

H3E1A1T1

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Valid words made from Heat

You can make 26 words from 'heat' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.


4 letters words from 'heat'

EATH 7HAET 7
HATE 7HEAT 7
THAE 7 

3 letters words from 'heat'

ATE 3EAT 3
ETA 3ETH 6
HAE 6HAT 6
HET 6TAE 3
TEA 3THE 6

2 letters words from 'heat'

AE 2AH 5
AT 2EA 2
EH 5ET 2
HA 5HE 5
TA 2TE 2

All 4 letters words made out of heat

heat ehat haet ahet eaht aeht heta ehta htea thea etha teha hate ahte htae thae athe tahe eath aeth etah teah ateh taeh

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

Definitions and meaning of heat

heat

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hēt, IPA(key): /hiːt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /hit/, [çit]
  • Rhymes: -iːt

Etymology 1

From Middle English hete, from Old English hǣte, hǣtu (“heat, warmth; fervor, ardor”), from Proto-Germanic *haitį̄ (“heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kayd-, a derived form of *kay- (“heat; hot”).

Cognate with Scots hete (“heat”), North Frisian hiet (“heat”), Old High German heizī (“heat”). Related also to Dutch hitte (“heat”), German Hitze (“heat”), Swedish hetta (“heat”), Icelandic hiti (“heat”).

Noun

heat (countable and uncountable, plural heats)

  1. (uncountable) Thermal energy.
    • 2007, James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition, pages 106–108:
      Heat and temperature, although different, are intimately related. [...] For example, suppose you added equal amounts of heat to equal masses of iron and aluminum. How do you think their temperatures would change? […] if the temperature of the iron increased by 100 C°, the corresponding temperature change in the aluminum would be only 48 C°.
  2. (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
  3. (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
  4. (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
    Synonyms: passion, vehemence
  5. (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
  6. (uncountable, slang) The police.
  7. (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
  8. (countable, baseball) A fastball.
  9. (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
  10. (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
  11. (countable) (by extension) A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
  12. (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
  13. (countable) A hot spell.
  14. (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
  15. (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
  16. (countable) A violent action unintermitted; A single effort
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English heten, from Old English hǣtan (“to heat; become hot”), from Proto-Germanic *haitijaną (“to heat, make hot”).

Verb

heat (third-person singular simple present heats, present participle heating, simple past and past participle heated or (dialectal) het)

  1. (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
    I'll heat up the water.
  2. (intransitive) To become hotter.
    There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.
  3. (transitive, figuratively) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
  4. (transitive, figuratively) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
  5. (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).
    The massage heated her up.
Derived terms
Synonyms
  • stoke
  • warm up
  • heat up; hot up, hot
Translations

Anagrams

  • Thea, eath, haet, hate, heta

Swedish

Etymology

From English heat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhiːt/
  • Homophone: hit

Noun

heat n

  1. (sports) A heat, a preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race

Declension

Anagrams

  • Thea, heta

Source: wiktionary.org
  • to make hot.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)