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Yes. The word heft is a Scrabble US word. The word heft is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word heft is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

HEFT,

3-letter words (7 found)

EFT,ETH,FEH,FET,HET,TEF,THE,

2-letter words (6 found)

EF,EH,ET,FE,HE,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 15 words from heft according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of heft

heft ehft hfet fhet efht feht hetf ehtf htef thef ethf tehf hfte fhte htfe thfe fthe tfhe efth feth etfh tefh fteh tfeh

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Definitions and meaning of heft

heft

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɛft/
  • Rhymes: -ɛft

Etymology 1

From Middle English heft, derived from Middle English heven (“to lift, heave”), equivalent to heave +‎ -t (“-th”). For development, compare English weft from weave, cleft from cleave, theft from thieve, etc.

Alternative forms

  • haft

Noun

heft (countable and uncountable, plural hefts)

  1. (uncountable) Weight.
  2. Heaviness, the feel of weight; heftiness.
  3. (figurative) Influence; importance.
  4. The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion.
  5. (US, dated, colloquial) The greater part or bulk of anything.
Derived terms
  • hefty
Translations

Verb

heft (third-person singular simple present hefts, present participle hefting, simple past and past participle hefted)

  1. (transitive) To lift up; especially, to lift something heavy.
    He hefted the sack of concrete into the truck.
  2. (transitive) To test the weight of something by lifting it.
  3. (obsolete) past participle of heave
Synonyms
  • (to lift up): hoist
Translations

Etymology 2

From English and Scots dialect, ultimately from Old Norse hefð (“possession, statute of limitations, prescriptive right”) (compare Old Norse hefða (“to acquire prescriptive rights”)), from Proto-Germanic *habiþō, equivalent to have +‎ -t (“-th”). Cognate with Scots heft, heff (“an accustomed pasture”).

Noun

heft (plural hefts)

  1. (Northern England) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted (accustomed).
  2. An animal that has become hefted thus.
  3. (West of Ireland) Poor condition in sheep caused by mineral deficiency.

Verb

heft (third-person singular simple present hefts, present participle hefting, simple past and past participle hefted)

  1. (transitive, Northern England and Scotland) To make (a farm animal, especially a flock of sheep) accustomed and attached to an area of mountain pasture.

Etymology 3

From German Heft (“notebook”).

Noun

heft (plural hefts)

  1. A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook.
  2. A part of a serial publication.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɦɛft/
  • Hyphenation: heft
  • Rhymes: -ɛft

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch hefte, from Old Dutch *hefti, from Proto-West Germanic *haftī, from Proto-Germanic *haftiją. Forms with -cht- were dominant in Middle Dutch.

Noun

heft n (plural heften, diminutive heftje n)

  1. handle of a knife or other tool, haft, hilt
  2. (metaphor, used absolutely: het heft) control, charge
    Synonyms: gevest, handgreep
    Zij heeft hier het heft in handen. ― She runs the show here.
Alternative forms
  • hecht
Derived terms
  • het heft in eigen handen nemen

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

heft

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • hefte

Etymology

From heven, on the model of weven and weft.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɛft/

Noun

heft (plural heftis)

  1. (Late Middle English, rare) weight

Descendants

  • English: heft
  • ⇒ Yola: heifteen, heiftem

References

  • “heft, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *haptá, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *saptá, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥. Compare Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬞𐬙𐬀 (hapta), Persian هفت (haft), Ossetian авд (avd), Pashto اووه (uwə).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ħæft/

Numeral

heft

  1. seven

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb hefte.

Noun

heft n (definite singular heftet, indefinite plural heft, definite plural hefta)

  1. encumberment

Verb

heft

  1. imperative of hefta

References

  • “heft” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse hefð.

Noun

heft

  1. A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted.
  2. An animal that has become hefted thus.

Verb

heft (third-person singular simple present hefts, present participle heftin, simple past heftit, past participle heftit)

  1. (transitive) The process by which a farm animal becomes accustomed to an area of mountain pasture.

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