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Is locust a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word locust is a Scrabble US word. The word locust is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is locust a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word locust is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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Is locust a Words With Friends word?

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

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6-letter words (2 found)

CLOUTS,LOCUST,

5-letter words (11 found)

CLOTS,CLOUS,CLOUT,COLTS,CULTS,LOCUS,LOTUS,LOUTS,SCOUT,SOUCT,TOLUS,

4-letter words (24 found)

CLOT,CLOU,COLS,COLT,COST,COTS,CULT,CUTS,LOST,LOTS,LOUS,LOUT,LUST,OUST,OUTS,SCOT,SCUL,SCUT,SLOT,SLUT,SOUL,SOUT,TOCS,TOLU,

3-letter words (15 found)

COL,COS,COT,CUT,LOS,LOT,LOU,OUS,OUT,SOC,SOL,SOT,SOU,TOC,UTS,

2-letter words (8 found)

LO,OS,OU,SO,ST,TO,US,UT,

You can make 60 words from locust according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of locust

locust

Etymology

From Middle English locuste, locust, from Anglo-Norman locuste, Middle French locuste, and their source, Latin locusta (“locust, crustacean, lobster”). Doublet of langouste.

The tree sense, originally referring to the carob (compare locust bean), is based on the resemblance of the trees' beanlike seed pods to the insect and is likely a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἀκρίς (akrís).

The sense in "Mainlander" is a semantic loan from Cantonese 蝗蟲／蝗虫 (wong4 cung4), also meaning "locust".

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈləʊ.kəst/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈloʊ.kəst/
  • Rhymes: -əʊkəst, -oʊkəst

Noun

locust (plural locusts)

  1. Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, (especially) migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria). [from 14th c.]
  2. (now historical) A fruit or pod of a carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua). [from 16th c.]
  3. Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree. [from 17th c.]
  4. A cicada. [from 18th c.]
  5. (Hong Kong, derogatory, offensive) A Mainlander.

Usage notes

  • Sometimes confused with locus.

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Verb

locust (third-person singular simple present locusts, present participle locusting, simple past and past participle locusted)

  1. (intransitive) To come in a swarm.

References

Anagrams

  • clouts

Middle English

Noun

locust

  1. Alternative form of locuste

Source: wiktionary.org