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

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4-letter words (1 found)

PANT,

3-letter words (8 found)

ANT,APT,NAP,NAT,PAN,PAT,TAN,TAP,

2-letter words (5 found)

AN,AT,NA,PA,TA,

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

All 4 letters words made out of pant

pant apnt pnat npat anpt napt patn aptn ptan tpan atpn tapn pnta npta ptna tpna ntpa tnpa antp natp atnp tanp ntap tnap

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

Definitions and meaning of pant

pant

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pănt, IPA(key): /pænt/
  • Rhymes: -ænt

Etymology 1

From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank.

Possibly from Old French pantoyer, a byform or of Old French pantoisier (“to be breathless”) (compare modern French panteler (“to gasp for breath”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *pantasiō (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare”), from Ancient Greek φαντασιόω (phantasióō, “I am subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”).

Noun

pant (plural pants)

  1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
  2. (figurative) Eager longing.
  3. (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
Derived terms
  • pant-hoot
Translations
References
  • “pant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “pant”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Verb

pant (third-person singular simple present pants, present participle panting, simple past and past participle panted)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
  2. (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
  4. (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
  5. (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
  6. (intransitive) To heave, as the breast.
  7. (intransitive) To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
Synonyms
  • (breathe quickly or in a labored manner): gasp
  • (long for): crave, desire, long for, pine for
  • (long eagerly): crave, desire, long, pine
  • (of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence): palpitate, pound, throb
Translations

Etymology 2

From pants.

Noun

pant (plural pants)

  1. (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
  2. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.
    pant leg
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

Unknown

Noun

pant (plural pants)

  1. (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.

References

  • OED 2nd edition

See also

  • Pont-y-pant

Anagrams

  • APTN, NAPT, NPTA

Czech

Etymology

From German Band (“band, belt”).

Noun

pant m inan

  1. hinge

Declension

Danish

Noun

pant

  1. a deposit (on packaging such as bottles and cans)

Derived terms

  • dåsepant, flaskepant

See also

  • depositum (deposit on a rented home)

Icelandic

Etymology

Childish alteration of panta (“to reserve”).

Verb

pant (defective verb)

  1. (colloquial, childish) I call dibs! (used when claiming a right to be the first or only one to do something)
    Pant velja tónlistina. ― I call dibs on choosing the music.
    Ég pant vera R2-D2, þú mátt vera C3PO. ― I call dibs on being R2-D2, you can be C3PO.

Middle English

Verb

pant

  1. Alternative form of panten

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr.

Noun

pant n (definite singular pantet, indefinite plural pant, definite plural panta or pantene)

  1. pawn (item sold to a pawn shop)
  2. a mortgage
  3. security (on a loan)
  4. a forfeit (in a game)
  5. a pledge

Related terms

  • pantelån
  • pantelåner
  • pantsette

Noun

pant m (definite singular panten, indefinite plural panter, definite plural pantene)

  1. a (refundable) deposit (e.g. on bottles)

References

  • “pant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr.

Noun

pant n (definite singular pantet, indefinite plural pant, definite plural panta)

  1. pawn (item sold to a pawn shop)
  2. a mortgage
  3. security (on a loan)
  4. a forfeit (in a game)
  5. a pledge

Related terms

  • pantelån

Noun

pant m (definite singular panten, indefinite plural pantar, definite plural pantane)

  1. a (refundable) deposit (e.g. on bottles)

References

  • “pant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Band via Austrian German.

Noun

pȁnt m (Cyrillic spelling па̏нт)

  1. hinge

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish panter (“deposit”). From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr. According to SO attested since the early half of the 14th century.

Noun

pant c

  1. pledge, pawn, item deposited at a pawnshop or otherwise given as a security
  2. container deposit, an addition to the price of an article returned when its container is returned to a collection point for re-use
  3. (by extension) item that has container deposit

Declension

See also

  • panta (“to pawn”)

References

  • pant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • pant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷantyos "flat hill", compare Pictish ᚘᚐᚅᚈ (pant, “hollow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pant/
  • Rhymes: -ant

Noun

pant m (plural pantiau)

  1. hollow, depression, small valley, dingle, dell

Derived terms

  • i bant
  • bant

Mutation

References

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pant”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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