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Is pest a Scrabble word?

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

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Is pest a Scrabble UK word?

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

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4-letter words (5 found)

PEST,PETS,SEPT,SPET,STEP,

3-letter words (6 found)

EST,PES,PET,PST,SET,TES,

2-letter words (5 found)

ES,ET,PE,ST,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 17 words from pest according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of pest

pest epst pset spet espt sept pets epts ptes tpes etps teps pste spte ptse tpse stpe tspe estp setp etsp tesp step tsep

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

Definitions and meaning of pest

pest

Etymology

In the 16th century in the sense of "pestilence" and specifically bubonic plague from Middle French peste (“pestilence”) (whence French peste). The other meanings are recorded soon after. Ultimately from Latin pestis.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /pɛst/
  • Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

pest (plural pests)

  1. (now rare) A pestilence, i.e. a deadly epidemic, a deadly plague.
  2. Any destructive insect that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
  3. An annoying person, a nuisance.
  4. An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or a parasite, vermin.
  5. An invasive weed.

Synonyms

  • (creature): bug

Derived terms

Related terms

  • pester
  • pesting
  • pesthole
  • pesthouse
  • pesticidal, pesticide
  • pestiferous
  • pestilence, pestilent, pestilential

Translations

Anagrams

  • EPTs, ESTP, PETs, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pets, sept, sept-, spet, step, step-

Danish

Etymology

From French peste, from Latin pestis (“disease, plague, pest, destruction”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛst/, [pʰɛsd̥]

Noun

pest c (uncountable, singular definite pesten)

  1. (pathology) plague
  2. (figuratively) pestilence

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

pest f (uncountable)

  1. A plague, pest, pestilence.
  2. A specific bovine plague
  3. An obnoxious person

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Negerhollands: pest
  • → Indonesian: pes
  • → Japanese: ペスト (pesuto)
  • → Papiamentu: peste

Verb

pest

  1. inflection of pesten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

References

  • M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛst/

Noun

pest f (Arabic spelling پەست)

  1. pressure, oppression

References

  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “pest”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎[2], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 442

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin pestis.

Noun

pest f or m (definite singular pesta or pesten, indefinite plural pester, definite plural pestene)

  1. a plague
    sky (noe/noen) som pesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague
    velge mellom pest og kolera - choose the lesser of two evils

Derived terms

  • byllepest
  • forpeste
  • pestepidemi

References

  • “pest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin pestis.

Noun

pest m (definite singular pesten, indefinite plural pestar, definite plural pestane)
pest f (definite singular pesta, indefinite plural pester, definite plural pestene)

  1. a plague
    sky (noko/nokon) som pesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague
    velje mellom pest og kolera - choose the lesser of two evils

Derived terms

  • byllepest
  • forpeste
  • harepest
  • musepest
  • pestepidemi
  • Pesta (“humanoid personification of the plague”)
  • tinnpest

References

  • “pest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pęstь.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pêːst/

Noun

pȇst f (Cyrillic spelling пе̑ст)

  1. (regional, literary) fist

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pęstь. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian пест, pest, Slovak päsť, Russian пясть (pjastʹ, “middle part of the hand”) and запя́стье (zapjástʹje), dialectal Bulgarian (Western dialects) пестник (pestnik), песник (pesnik), пестница (pestnica). Compare Ancient Greek πυγμή (pugmḗ), English fist, German Faust.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /péːst/

Noun

pẹ̑st f

  1. (anatomy) fist

Inflection

Derived terms

  • pésten

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin pestis.

Noun

pest c

  1. A plague
  2. A pest; something deeply annoying

Derived terms

  • blodpest
  • böldpest
  • lungpest
  • pest och pina
  • sky som pesten
  • välja mellan pest och kolera

References

  • pest in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • pest in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • pest in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tocharian B

Particle

pest

  1. a perfectivizing particle used with verbs

Source: wiktionary.org