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Is melt a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word melt is a Scrabble US word. The word melt is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

M3E1L1T1

Is melt a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word melt is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

M3E1L1T1

Is melt a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word melt is a Words With Friends word. The word melt is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

M4E1L2T1

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4-letter words (1 found)

MELT,

3-letter words (6 found)

ELM,ELT,LET,MEL,MET,TEL,

2-letter words (5 found)

EL,EM,ET,ME,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 13 words from melt according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of melt

melt emlt mlet lmet elmt lemt metl emtl mtel tmel etml teml mlte lmte mtle tmle ltme tlme eltm letm etlm telm ltem tlem

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word melt. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in melt.

Definitions and meaning of melt

melt

Etymology

From Middle English melten, from a merger of Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from Proto-West Germanic *meltan and *maltijan, from Proto-Germanic *meltaną and *maltijaną, both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to digest”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: mĕlt, IPA(key): /mɛlt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlt

Noun

melt (countable and uncountable, plural melts)

  1. Molten material, the product of melting.
  2. The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
  3. The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
  4. A melt sandwich.
  5. (geology) Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.
  6. A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
    Synonym: tart
  7. (UK, slang, derogatory) An idiot.
  8. Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.

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Verb

melt (third-person singular simple present melts, present participle melting, simple past melted or (rare) molt, past participle melted or molten)

  1. (ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
    I melted butter to make a cake.
    When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt.
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
    His troubles melted away.
  3. (transitive, figurative) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
  4. (intransitive) To be discouraged.
  5. (intransitive, figurative) To be emotionally softened or touched.
    She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card.
    My heart melted when I first heard the song.
  6. (intransitive, colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • (change from solid to liquid): to found, to thaw

Derived terms

Related terms

  • smelt

Translations

Middle English

Verb

melt

  1. Alternative form of melten

Source: wiktionary.org