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Is hint a Scrabble word?

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

H4I1N1T1

Is hint a Scrabble UK word?

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

H4I1N1T1

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Yes. The word hint is a Words With Friends word. The word hint is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

H3I1N2T1

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4-letter words (2 found)

HINT,THIN,

3-letter words (5 found)

HIN,HIT,NIT,NTH,TIN,

2-letter words (4 found)

HI,IN,IT,TI,

You can make 11 words from hint according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of hint

hint ihnt hnit nhit inht niht hitn ihtn htin thin ithn tihn hnti nhti htni thni nthi tnhi inth nith itnh tinh ntih tnih

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Definitions and meaning of hint

hint

Etymology

From Middle English hinten, hynten, variant of henten (“to lay hold of, catch”), from Old English hentan (“to seize, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *hantijan, from Proto-Germanic *hantijaną. Doublet of hent. Related also to hunt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɪnt/
  • Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

hint (plural hints)

  1. A clue.
  2. An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
  3. A small, barely detectable amount.
  4. (computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
  5. (databases) An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
  6. (obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.

Synonyms

  • (small amount): see also Thesaurus:modicum.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

hint (third-person singular simple present hints, present participle hinting, simple past and past participle hinted)

  1. (intransitive) To imply without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
  2. (transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
  3. (transitive) To develop and add hints to a font.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:allude

Translations

Interjection

hint

  1. (often reduplicated) Signifies that something previously said should be taken as a hint or heeded closely.

Anagrams

  • Nith, thin, thin'

Danish

Etymology 1

From English hint.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhenˀd̥]

Noun

hint n (singular definite hintet, plural indefinite hint or hints)

  1. hint, clue

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhiˀnd̥], [hind̥]

Pronoun

hint

  1. neuter singular of hin

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowing from English hint.

Pronunciation

Noun

hint f or m (plural hints, diminutive hintje n)

  1. hint

Synonyms

  • aanwijzing

See also

  • tip

Verb

hint

  1. inflection of hinten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Hungarian

Etymology

From an unattested stem of unknown origin + -t (causative suffix). The stem was probably him-, related to obsolete himlik and thus himlő. It may have had at least a variant with velar /ɯ/, giving rise to the forms hinta and hintó, as reflected by their back-vowel suffixes.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhint]
  • Hyphenation: hint
  • Rhymes: -int

Verb

hint

  1. (transitive) to scatter, sprinkle (to cause a substance to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance))
    Synonyms: szór, hullat
    A cukrász porcukrot hint a süteményre. ― The confectioner sprinkles powedered sugar on the cookie.

Conjugation

Derived terms

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References

Further reading

  • hint in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English hint.

Noun

hint n (definite singular hintet, indefinite plural hint, definite plural hinta or hintene)

  1. a hint

References

  • “hint” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “hint” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English hint.

Noun

hint n (definite singular hintet, indefinite plural hint, definite plural hinta)

  1. a hint

References

  • “hint” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɪnt/

Verb

hint

  1. to hunt

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 46

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