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Is loot a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word loot is a Scrabble US word. The word loot is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (3 found)

LOOT,LOTO,TOOL,

3-letter words (4 found)

LOO,LOT,OOT,TOO,

2-letter words (3 found)

LO,OO,TO,

You can make 10 words from loot according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of loot

loot olot loot olot oolt oolt loto olto ltoo tloo otlo tolo loto olto ltoo tloo otlo tolo ootl ootl otol tool otol tool

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Definitions and meaning of loot

loot

Pronunciation

  • (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /luːt/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɫʉːt/
  • Rhymes: -uːt
  • Homophone: lute (in accents with yod-dropping)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Dutch loet or loete (“scoop, shovel, scraper”), from reconstructed Old Dutch *lōta, from Old Frankish *lōtija (“scoop”), from Proto-Germanic *hlōþþijō (“scoop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to lay down, deposit, overlay”).

Related to lade and ladle, and cognate with Dutch loet, Scots lute or luyt (“scoop”), West Frisian loete or lete, Middle Low German lōte (“rake”), and French louche (“ladle”).

Alternative forms

  • lute (obsolete)

Noun

loot (plural loots)

  1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A scoop used to remove scum from brine pans in saltworks.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindi लूट (lūṭ, “booty”), either from Sanskrit लोप्त्र (loptra, “booty, stolen property”) or लुण्ट् (luṇṭ, “to rob, plunder”). The figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.

Noun

loot (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly (historical) during the sacking of a town in war or (video games) after successful combat.
    • 2015, Shashi Tharoor, "Britain Does Owe Reparations", 00:02:22:
      India went from being a world-famous exporter of finished cloth into an importer, went from having 27% of world trade to less than 2%. Meanwhile, colonialists like Sir Robert Clive bought their rotten boroughs in England on the proceeds of their loot in India while taking the Hindi word "loot" into their dictionaries as well as their habits.
  2. Synonym of sack, the plundering of a city, particularly during war.
  3. (colloquial, US) Any valuable thing received for free, especially Christmas presents.
    • 1956 April 23, Life Magazine, p. 131:
      Free Loot for Children
  4. (slang) Synonym of money.
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Verb

loot (third-person singular simple present loots, present participle looting, simple past and past participle looted)

  1. (transitive) Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.
    • 1842 May 17, Lord Ellenborough, letter:
      The plunderers are beaten whenever they are caught, but there is a good deal of burning and ‘looting’ as they call it.
  2. (transitive, chiefly South Asian) Synonym of rob, to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence.
    • 1851 June 20, Mrs. Hervey, journal:
      He told me... that if I gave him less than to the master of the luggage-boat, he would... declare at Shēr-Gurry that I had ‘looted him!’
Derived terms
  • when the looting starts, the shooting starts
Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping.

Noun

loot (plural loots)

  1. (US military slang, dated) Clipping of lieutenant.

References

  • “loot, n¹.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • “loot, n².”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2019.
  • “loot, n³.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • “loot, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Anagrams

  • LOTO, OOTL, loto, tool

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /loːt/
  • Hyphenation: loot
  • Rhymes: -oːt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lote, from Old Dutch *lōt, from Proto-Germanic *lōda, related to *landa- and *leudaną (“to grow, sprout, shoot up”).

Noun

loot m (plural loten, diminutive lootje n)

  1. A sprout, shoot, stem etc. growing on an existing plant part
    Synonym: scheut
  2. A descendant, offspring.
  3. Something originating, growing, developing from another.
Derived terms
  • loten (to sprout)
  • waterloot

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

loot

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

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *lōt, from Proto-West Germanic *laud.

Noun

lôot n

  1. lead (metal)
    Synonym: bli

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

  • “loot”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “loot (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

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