You can make 5 words from nut according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 3 letters words made out of nut
nut unt ntu tnu utn tun
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word nut. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in nut.
Definitions and meaning of nut
nut
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: nŭt, IPA(key): /nʌt/
(California, New Zealand, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [nɐt]
(Northern England) IPA(key): /nʊt/
Rhymes: -ʌt
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishnute, note, from Old Englishhnutu, from Proto-West Germanic*hnut, from Proto-Germanic*hnuts(“nut”) (compare West Frisiannút, Dutchnoot, GermanNuss, Danishnød, Swedishnöt, Norwegiannøtt), from a root *knu- also seen in Proto-Celtic*knūs (source of Irishcnó) and Latinnux(“nut”). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European origin.
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Noun
nut (pluralnuts)
(food, broadly) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
(botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
(hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
Synonyms:loony, nutbag, nutcase, nutter; see also Thesaurus:mad person
(colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
(UK, slang, dated) An extravagantly fashionable young man. [1910s–1920s]
1914, "Saki", ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 323:
‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut, are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring [...].
(anatomy)Senses related to male genitalia.
(archaic) The glans (structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris).
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(vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.
Synonyms:ball, (taboo slang)bollock, nads
(vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate.
(vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen.
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(US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
(US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
(US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
(music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
(typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
(climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
(poker, attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts(“the best possible hand available”).
(firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.
(nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
(archaic) A small rounded cake or cookie.
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Japanese: ナット(natto)
Translations
Verb
nut (third-person singular simple presentnuts, present participlenutting, simple past and past participlenuttedor(nonstandard)nut)
(mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.
(UK, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
Synonyms:butt, Glasgow kiss, Liverpool kiss, loaf
(slang, mildly vulgar) To orgasm; to ejaculate.
Synonyms:blow a nut, bust a nut; see also Thesaurus:ejaculate
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(slang) To hit in the testicles.
(slang) To defeat thoroughly.
Etymology 2
Noun
nut (pluralnuts)
Alternative form of nuth(“Indian nose ring”)
Etymology 3
Variant of not.
Interjection
nut
(Scotland, colloquial) No.
References
Anagrams
NTU, Tun, tun
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [nʊ̠t]
Noun
nut (uncountable)
use, benefit
References
2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Dutch
Etymology
From the adjective Middle Dutchnutte(“useful”), or from Middle Dutchnut(“yield”), from Old Dutch*nut, from Proto-Germanic*nutją, *nutjō(“profit, yield, utility”), from Proto-Indo-European*newd-(“to seize; grasp; use”).