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Is onto a Scrabble word?

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

O1N1T1O1

Is onto a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word onto is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

O1N1T1O1

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4-letter words (3 found)

ONTO,OONT,TOON,

3-letter words (7 found)

NOO,NOT,ONO,OON,OOT,TON,TOO,

2-letter words (4 found)

NO,ON,OO,TO,

You can make 14 words from onto according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of onto

onto

English

Alternative forms

  • on to (UK, Ireland and Commonwealth countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc.)

Etymology

From on +‎ to, after into. Compare Saterland Frisian antou (up to).

Pronunciation

  • (stressed)
    • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɒn.tuː/
    • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɔn.tu/
    • (Northern US or cotcaught merger) IPA(key): /ˈɑn.tu/
  • (UK) (unstressed, before consonants) IPA(key): /ˈɒn.tə/
    • (US) (unstressed, before consonants) IPA(key): /ˈɔn.tə/
    • (Northern US or cotcaught merger, unstressed form, before consonants) IPA(key): /ˈɑn.tə/
  • (UK) (unstressed, before vowels) IPA(key): /ˈɒn.tʊ/
    • (US) (unstressed, before vowels) IPA(key): /ˈɔn.tʊ/
    • (Northern US or cotcaught merger, unstressed form, before vowels) IPA(key): /ˈɑn.tʊ/
  • Hyphenation: on‧to
  • Rhymes: (unstressed, before consonants) -ɒntə

Preposition

onto

  1. Arriving upon or on top of (speaking of a physical or metaphorical movement).
    Antonyms: off, (colloquial) off of
  2. (informal) Aware of.
  3. (mathematics) Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

onto (not comparable)

  1. (mathematics, of a function) Attaining each of the values in its codomain; having its image equal to its codomain.
    Synonym: surjective

Translations

See also

  • (mathematics): one-to-one, injective, bijective

See also

  • unto

Anagrams

  • Noto, Toon, noot, noto-, oont, tono-, toon

Kankanaey

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔonˈto/ [ʔʊnˈto]
  • (Tadian) IPA(key): /ʔonˈto/ [ʔʊnˈto]
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Syllabification: on‧to

Noun

ontó

  1. vegetable

References

  • Morice Vanoverbergh (1933) “ontó”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎[2], Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 328

Mansaka

Etymology

From untu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quntu.

Noun

onto

  1. tooth

Source: wiktionary.org