Ort in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Ort

You can make 5 words from 'ort' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'ort'
• 2 letters words from 'ort'

3 letters words from 'ort'

ORT 3	ROT 3
TOR 3

2 letters words from 'ort'

OR 2

TO 2

Definitions and meaning of ort

ort

Etymology

From Middle English ort, from Old English *orǣt (“that which is left after eating”, literally “out-eat”), equivalent to or- +‎ eat. Cognate with Middle Low German orte (“refuse of food”), Middle Dutch ooraete, ooreete, Low German ort (“ort”), Middle High German urez, German uräß.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ôt, IPA^(key): /ɔːt/
• (US) enPR: ôrt, IPA^(key): /ɔːɹt/
• Homophones: aught, ought (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

Noun

ort (plural orts)

1. (usually in the plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.

Synonyms

• (fragment): bit, chip; See also Thesaurus:piece
• (leftover food): gubbins, leftover, scrap
• (any remainder): remnant, residue; See also Thesaurus:remainder
• (a piece of refuse): garbage, rubbish; See also Thesaurus:trash

Translations

Verb

ort (third-person singular simple present orts, present participle orting, simple past and past participle orted)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To turn away from with disgust; refuse.

Anagrams

• OTR, ROT, RTO, TOR, TRO, Tor, rot, tor

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Daur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔrtʰ/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mongolic *urtu, compare Mongolian урт (urt).

Adjective

ort

1. long

Etymology 2

From Manchu ᠣᡴᡨᠣ (okto, “medicine, drug, poison, gunpowder”) or otherwise from Proto-Tungusic *okta (“medicine”).

Borrowed before Daur rhotacism.

Noun

ort

1. gunpowder

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin hortus.

Noun

ort m (plural orts)

1. vegetable garden

Related terms

• ortae

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔɾˠt̪ˠ/

Pronoun

ort (emphatic ortsa)

1. second-person singular of ar: on you sg

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Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish fort.

Pronoun

ort

1. second-person singular informal of er

   on you

Derived terms

• orts (emphatic)

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *uzdaz, whence Old English ord, Old Norse oddr

Noun

ort m

1. sharp point

Descendants

• Middle High German: ort
  • German: Ort
  • Luxembourgish: Uert

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish fort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔrˠst/

Pronoun

ort

1. on you (informal singular)

Derived terms

• ortsa

See also

• oirbh

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʊʈː/

Noun

ort c

1. (inhabited) place, location; a group of houses (of any size: hamlet, village, town, city...)
2. (mining) adit (horizontal tunnel in a mine)

Declension

Derived terms

• (place): bostadsort, centralort, födelseort, småort, tätort, på ort och ställe

Anagrams

• Tor, rot, tro

Source: wiktionary.org

• a leftover from a meal.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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