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Is indent a Scrabble word?

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

I1N1D2E1N1T1

Is indent a Scrabble UK word?

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

I1N1D2E1N1T1

Is indent a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word indent is a Words With Friends word. The word indent is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

I1N2D2E1N2T1

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6-letter words (4 found)

DENTIN,INDENT,INTEND,TINNED,

5-letter words (4 found)

IDENT,INNED,TEIND,TINED,

4-letter words (17 found)

DENI,DENT,DIET,DINE,DINT,DITE,EDIT,NIDE,NIED,NINE,NITE,TEIN,TEND,TIDE,TIED,TIND,TINE,

3-letter words (18 found)

DEI,DEN,DIE,DIN,DIT,END,IDE,INN,NED,NET,NID,NIE,NIT,TED,TEN,TID,TIE,TIN,

2-letter words (11 found)

DE,DI,ED,EN,ET,ID,IN,IT,NE,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 55 words from indent according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of indent

indent

Etymology

Partly from Middle English indenten (“to dent in”), equivalent to in- +‎ dent (see dent); partly from Middle English indenten, endenten, from Old French endenter (“to provide with teeth”), from en- (“in-, en-”) + dent (“tooth”), from Latin dēns.

Pronunciation

  • (noun) IPA(key): /ˈɪndɛnt/, /ɪnˈdɛnt/
  • (verb) IPA(key): /ɪnˈdɛnt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

indent (plural indents)

  1. A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
  2. A stamp; an impression.
  3. A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
  4. A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.

Translations

Verb

indent (third-person singular simple present indents, present participle indenting, simple past and past participle indented)

  1. (transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
  2. (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
  3. To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
  4. (historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
  5. (intransitive, reflexive, obsolete) To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
    • , New York, 2001, p.91:
      The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland.
    • 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp. xlii-xliii,[2]
      […] he accidentally met with the commander of a trading vessel bound to Barbadoes, and being actuated by an adventurous spirit, [he] bargained for a passage by indenting himself to serve a planter for four years after his arrival in that island.
  6. (transitive, obsolete) To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
  7. (typography) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "Hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
  8. (obsolete, intransitive) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
  9. (military, India, dated) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
    • 1832 May 23, John Byng examining Jasper Nicolls in the House of Commons:
      What is the rule observed in India in indenting upon England for military stores ?

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "typography"): unindent
  • (antonym(s) of "typography"): outdent

Derived terms

  • hanging indent

Translations

Anagrams

  • Dinnet, dentin, dinnet, intend, tinned

Latin

Verb

indent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of indō

Source: wiktionary.org