You can make 3 words from lot according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 3 letters words made out of lot
lot olt lto tlo otl tol
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word lot. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in lot.
Definitions and meaning of lot
lot
Etymology
From Middle Englishlot, from Old Englishhlot(“portion, choice, decision”), from Proto-Germanic*hlutą.
Cognate with North Frisianlod, Saterland FrisianLot, West Frisianlot, Dutchlot, Frenchlot, German Low GermanLott, Middle High Germanluz. Doublet of lotto. Related also to GermanLos.
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation, General Australian, New Zealand, Canada) enPR: lŏt, IPA(key): /lɒt/
(General American) enPR: lät, IPA(key): /lɑt/
(Boston, Western Pennsylvania) IPA(key): /lɔt/
Rhymes: -ɒt
Noun
lot (plurallots)
A large quantity or number; a great deal.
Synonyms:load, mass, pile
A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
Synonyms:batch, collection, group, set
One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
(informal) A number of people taken collectively.
Synonyms:crowd, gang, group
A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
Synonyms:allotment, parcel, plot
That which happens without human design or forethought.
Synonyms:chance, accident, destiny, fate, fortune
Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
A prize in a lottery.
Synonym:prize
Allotment; lottery.
1990: Donald Kagan, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, chapter 2: “Politician”, page 40 (Guild Publishing; CN 2239)
Archons served only for one year and, since 487/6, they were chosen by lot. Generals, on the other hand, were chosen by direct election and could be reelected without limit.
(definite,the lot) All members of a set; everything.
(historical) An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
Synonyms
See also Thesaurus:lot
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
lot (third-person singular simple presentlots, present participlelotting, simple past and past participlelotted)
(transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
(US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon).
Anagrams
LTO, OTL, tol, tol'
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian*lā(i)ta, and adjective in *-to-, from Proto-Indo-European*lēy-(“to pour”).
To encourage the sales of three-roomers, which are the most difficult to sell, [they] reserved an entire batch of products (flats) for customers who returned after [the sales of] Hemera.
呢Lot貨造成咁實畀人嘈到甩褲喎[Hong Kong Cantonese, trad.] 呢Lot货造成咁实畀人嘈到甩裤㖞[Hong Kong Cantonese, simp.]
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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch and Old Dutchlot, from Frankish*hlot, from Proto-Germanic*hlutą.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /lɔt/
Hyphenation: lot
Rhymes: -ɔt
Noun
lotn (pluralloten, diminutivelootjen)
destiny, fate, lot
lottery ticket
(archaic)lot, allotment (that which has been apportioned to a party)
Related terms
loten
Descendants
Negerhollands: loot, lot
→ Caribbean Javanese: lot
→ Indonesian: lot
→ Balinese: ᬮᭀᬢ᭄(lot, “lottery”)
→ Papiamentu: lòt, lot
Anagrams
tol
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Frenchlot, from Old Frenchloz, los, from Frankish*lot, from Proto-Germanic*hlutą. Cognate with Englishlot.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /lo/
Homophones: lods, los, lots
(older, now chiefly Belgium) IPA(key): /lɔ/
Homophone: lots
Noun
lotm (plurallots)
share (of inheritance)
plot (of land)
batch (of goods for sale)
lot (at auction)
prize (in lottery)
lot, fate
(slang) babe
Derived terms
gros lot
lot de consolation
sortir du lot
Further reading
“lot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Pronunciation
Verb
lot
singular imperative of loten
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutchlot, from Proto-Germanic*hlutą.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈlɔt]
Hyphenation: lot
Noun
lot (first-person possessivelotku, second-person possessivelotmu, third-person possessivelotnya)
lot,
(manufacturing) a separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
(colloquial)lottery
Synonyms:lotre, undian
(finance)allotment
Descendants
→ Balinese: ᬮᭀᬢ᭄(lot, “lottery”)
Further reading
“lot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Irish
Noun
lotm (genitive singular as substantiveloit, genitive as verbal nounloite, nominative pluralloit)
verbal noun of loit
injury, impairment
destruction, defacement, mutilation
Declension
As a substantive:
As a verbal noun:
Derived terms
lotamas
Verb
lot (present analyticlotann, future analyticlotfaidh, verbal nounlot, past participlelota)
Alternative form of loit(“wound, destroy, spoil”)
Conjugation
Lombard
Alternative forms
lòtt(Classical Milanese Orthography)
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /lɔt/(Milanese)
Noun
lotm
lotus
Norman
Etymology
From Frankish*lot, from Proto-Germanic*hlutą.
Noun
lotm (plurallots)
(Guernsey) lot (at auction)
Northern Kurdish
Noun
lot?
jump
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
lot
simple past of la(Etymology 1)
simple past of late
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic*letъ. By surface analysis, deverbal from lecieć. First attested in 1548–1551.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /lɔt/
(Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈlɔt/
Rhymes: -ɔt
Syllabification: lot
Noun
lotm inan
flight (act of flying)
Synonyms:latanie, fruwanie
flight (nstance of flying)
flight (trip made by an aircraft)
(Middle Polish) flight (fast movement)
(Middle Polish) flight (fast spreading)
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), lot is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 59 times in scientific texts, 21 times in news, 4 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 102 times, making it the 618th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
Further reading
lot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
lot in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Renata Bronikowska (21.04.2016) “LOT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “lot”, in Słownik języka polskiego[3]
Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “lot”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[4]
J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “lot”, in Słownik języka polskiego[5] (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 765
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Frenchlot.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /lot/
Noun
lotn (pluralloturi)
plot (of land)
batch (of goods for sale)
lot (at auction)
national sports team
(dated) lottery ticket
Declension
References
lot in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From the root of loitiméir(“destroyer, botcher”).
Noun
lotm (genlota, pllotan)
sore, wound
sting
Tatar
Noun
lot
A unit of weight: 1 lot = 3 mısqal = 12.797 g (archaic) (see Tatar units of measurement#Mass)
Declension
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisianhlot, from Proto-Germanic*hlutą.
Noun
lotn (plurallotten, diminutivelotsje)
lottery ticket
fate, destiny
Further reading
“lot (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011