Riot in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Riot

You can make 15 words from 'riot' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'riot'
• 3 letters words from 'riot'
• 2 letters words from 'riot'

4 letters words from 'riot'

RIOT 4	ROTI 4
TIRO 4	TORI 4
TRIO 4

3 letters words from 'riot'

ORT 3	RIT 3
ROT 3	TOR 3

2 letters words from 'riot'

IO 2	IT 2
OI 2	OR 2
TI 2	TO 2

Definitions and meaning of riot

riot

Etymology

From Middle English riot (“debauched living, dissipation”), from Old French riote (“debate”). Compare French riotte and Occitan riòta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɪ.ɪt/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɪ.ət/
• Rhymes: -aɪət
• Homophone: ryot

Noun

riot (countable and uncountable, plural riots)

1. Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
2. The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
3. A wide and unconstrained variety.
   • 1921, Edward Sapir, Language

     The human world is contracting not only prospectively but to the backward-probing eye of culture-history. Nevertheless we are as yet far from able to reduce the riot of spoken languages to a small number of "stocks".

   In summer this flower garden is a riot of colour.

4. (obsolete) Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
   • (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)

     the lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day

Derived terms

• rioter
• run riot
• riot boosting

Translations

Verb

riot (third-person singular simple present riots, present participle rioting, simple past and past participle rioted)

1. (intransitive) To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of feasting, luxury, etc.
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     Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, / Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.

   • (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)

     No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows.
3. (transitive) To cause to riot; to throw into a tumult.
4. (transitive) To annoy.

Translations

Anagrams

• Tori, Troi, roti, tiro, tori, trio

Source: wiktionary.org

• RIOJA, (Spanish) a dry red wine.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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