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Is priest a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word priest is a Scrabble US word. The word priest is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is priest a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word priest is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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Yes. The word priest is a Words With Friends word. The word priest is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (9 found)

ESPRIT,PIERST,PIERTS,PRIEST,RIPEST,SITREP,SPRITE,STRIPE,TRIPES,

5-letter words (32 found)

EPRIS,PERIS,PERST,PERTS,PETRI,PIERS,PIERT,PIETS,PISTE,PREST,PRIES,PRISE,REIST,RESIT,RIPES,RITES,SPEIR,SPIER,SPIRE,SPIRT,SPITE,SPRIT,STIPE,STIRE,STIRP,STREP,STRIP,TIERS,TIRES,TRIES,TRIPE,TRIPS,

4-letter words (41 found)

ERST,IRES,PERI,PERT,PEST,PETS,PIER,PIES,PIET,PIRS,PISE,PITS,REIS,REPS,REST,RETS,RIPE,RIPS,RIPT,RISE,RISP,RITE,RITS,SEIR,SEPT,SIPE,SIRE,SITE,SPET,SPIE,SPIT,STEP,STIE,STIR,TIER,TIES,TIPS,TIRE,TRES,TRIE,TRIP,

3-letter words (31 found)

ERS,EST,IRE,ITS,PER,PES,PET,PIE,PIR,PIS,PIT,PRE,PSI,PST,REI,REP,RES,RET,RIP,RIT,SEI,SER,SET,SIP,SIR,SIT,SRI,TES,TIE,TIP,TIS,

2-letter words (12 found)

ER,ES,ET,IS,IT,PE,PI,RE,SI,ST,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 126 words from priest according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of priest

priest

English

Etymology

From Middle English prest, preest, from Old English prēost (“priest”), from Late Latin presbyter, from Ancient Greek πρεσβύτερος (presbúteros), from πρέσβυς (présbus, “elder, older”). Reinforced in Middle English by Old French prestre, also from Latin presbyter. Doublet of presbyter and prester.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɹiːst/, [ˈpɹ̥iːst]
  • Rhymes: -iːst

Noun

priest (plural priests)

  1. A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.
    Hypernym: cleric
  3. A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish.
  4. (Mormonism) The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood.

Coordinate terms

  • imam (Islam); guru, mahant, pujari (Hinduism); kohen (cohen), rabbi (Judaism); bhikkhu (Buddhism); godi (Germanic paganism); volkhv (Slavic paganism); mobad (Zoroastrianism)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

priest (third-person singular simple present priests, present participle priesting, simple past and past participle priested)

  1. (transitive) To ordain as a priest.
    • 1610, Alexander Cooke, Pope Joane, in William Oldys, editor, The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library: Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes: With a Table of the Contents, and an Alphabetical Index, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1744, OCLC 5325177; republished as John Maltham, editor, The Harleian Miscellany; or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811, OCLC 30776079, page 95:
      If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.

See also

References

  • “Lesson 7: Duties of the Priest”, in Duties and Blessings of the Priesthood, Part A‎[1], The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2000, page 48
  • Smart, Alastair Fish Welfare at Harvest: Killing Me Softly
  • Comparison of Common Slaughter Methods for Farmed Finfish Seafood innovations.

Anagrams

  • Pitres, Presti, Sprite, esprit, pierst, re-tips, respit, retips, ripest, sitrep, sprite, stripe, tripes

German

Verb

priest

  1. second-person singular/plural preterite of preisen

Middle English

Noun

priest

  1. alternative form of prest (“priest”)

Source: wiktionary.org