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Is hight a Scrabble word?

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

H4I1G2H4T1

Is hight a Scrabble UK word?

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

H4I1G2H4T1

Is hight a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word hight is a Words With Friends word. The word hight is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

H3I1G3H3T1

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5-letter words (2 found)

HIGHT,THIGH,

4-letter words (2 found)

HIGH,THIG,

3-letter words (4 found)

GHI,GIT,HIT,TIG,

2-letter words (4 found)

GI,HI,IT,TI,

You can make 12 words from hight according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of hight

hight ihght hgiht ghiht ighht gihht hihgt ihhgt hhigt hhigt ihhgt hihgt hghit ghhit hhgit hhgit ghhit hghit ighht gihht ihght hight ghiht hgiht higth ihgth hgith ghith ighth gihth hitgh ihtgh htigh thigh ithgh tihgh hgtih ghtih htgih thgih gthih tghih igthh githh itghh tighh gtihh tgihh hihtg ihhtg hhitg hhitg ihhtg hihtg hithg ihthg htihg thihg ithhg tihhg hhtig hhtig hthig thhig hthig thhig ihthg hithg ithhg tihhg htihg thihg hghti ghhti hhgti hhgti ghhti hghti hgthi ghthi htghi thghi gthhi tghhi hhtgi hhtgi hthgi thhgi hthgi thhgi ghthi hgthi gthhi tghhi htghi thghi ighth gihth ihgth higth ghith hgith igthh githh itghh tighh gtihh tgihh ihtgh hitgh ithgh tihgh htigh thigh ghtih hgtih gthih tghih htgih thgih

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

Definitions and meaning of hight

hight

Alternative forms

  • highte

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aɪt
  • IPA(key): /haɪt/
  • Homophone: height

Etymology 1

From Middle English hight (“to be named, be called”) (alternative past participle of hoten, see also hote), from Old English hēht (“was named, was called”, preterite of hātan), from *hehait-, reduplicate preterite base of Proto-West Germanic *haitan, from Proto-Germanic *haitaną (“to call, command, summon”). Akin to German heißen.

Verb

hight (no third-person singular simple present, no present participle, simple past and past participle hight) hight is only the preterite or past participle, not the infinitive or present.

  1. (obsolete) simple past of hote
  2. (archaic, transitive) To call, name.
  3. (archaic, intransitive) To be called or named.
  4. (archaic, dialectal) To command; to enjoin.
Usage notes
  • The verb hight has many different forms in many different regions. For the present tense the form het was rather common. The usage example for the sense "to command or to enjoin" can be rendered in standard English in the following manner:
  • Moreover, in the sense "to enjoin", the word is mainly used for emphasis, and as such is untranslatable into standard English. For example:
  • The word survives only as part of the oral tradition in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is no longer used in common speech.
Translations

Adjective

hight (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Called, named.
    Synonym: yclept
Translations

Etymology 2

See height

Noun

hight (plural hights)

  1. Obsolete form of height.

Anagrams

  • thigh

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • huht, hihht, hihte, hiȝte, hiht

Etymology

From Old English hyht.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hixt/
  • Rhymes: -ixt

Noun

hight

  1. hopefulness, expectedness
  2. gladness, satisfaction

Descendants

  • English: hight (obsolete)

References

  • “hight, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-24.

Source: wiktionary.org