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Is rost a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word rost is a Scrabble US word. The word rost is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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Is rost a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word rost is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

R1O1S1T1

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Valid words made from Rost

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


4 letters words from 'rost'

ORTS 4ROST 4
ROTS 4SORT 4
TORS 4 

3 letters words from 'rost'

ORS 3ORT 3
ROT 3SOT 3
TOR 3 

2 letters words from 'rost'

OR 2OS 2
SO 2ST 2
TO 2 

All 4 letters words made out of rost

rost orst rsot srot osrt sort rots orts rtos tros otrs tors rsto srto rtso trso stro tsro ostr sotr otsr tosr stor tsor

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

Definitions and meaning of rost

rost

Pronunciation

Noun

rost (plural rosts)

  1. (Scotland) Alternative form of roust (a strong tide or current)
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Anagrams

  • RTOS, RTOs, TROs, orts, rots, sort, tors

Breton

Etymology

From Old French rostir, of West Germanic origin.

Noun

rost m

  1. roasted meat

Catalan

Adjective

rost (feminine rosta, masculine plural rosts or rostos, feminine plural rostes)

  1. steep

Noun

rost m (plural rosts or rostos)

  1. a steep slope

Danish

Verb

rost

  1. past participle of rose

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔst

Adjective

rost

  1. Superlative form of ros

Anagrams

  • rots, stro, tros

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈroʃt]
  • Hyphenation: rost
  • Rhymes: -oʃt

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from an unattested stem + -t (noun-forming suffix).

Noun

rost (plural rostok)

  1. fiber
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German, more specifically from Bavarian. Compare Rost (“grill”).

Noun

rost (plural rostok)

  1. grill (grid of metal to roast food on)
    Synonyms: rostély, vasrács
Declension

References

Further reading

  • (fiber): rost in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (grill): rost in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Lombard

Etymology

From Old French rostir, of West Germanic origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɔʃt/

Noun

rost m (invariable)

  1. roast

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [rɔst]

Verb

rost

  1. supine of rosć

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French rost, roste.

Noun

rost

  1. Alternative form of roste (“roast”)

Etymology 2

From Old French rostir.

Verb

rost

  1. Alternative form of rosten (“to roast”)

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *orstъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɔst/

Noun

rost m inan

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of wzrost.

Declension

Related terms

  • (nouns) dorost, narost, odrost, podrost, porost, przedrost, przerost, przyrost, rozrost, wodorost, wyrost, wzrost, zarost, zrost

Further reading

  • rost in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin rōstrum. Compare Aromanian arostu. Compare also related meanings in Albanian rast.

Noun

rost n (plural rosturi)

  1. order
  2. sense, meaning
  3. purpose, aim
  4. justification
  5. job
  6. (obsolete) mouth
  7. (obsolete) the faculty of speaking, speech

Declension

Synonyms

  • (sense): sens
  • (mouth): gură
  • (speech): vorbire

Related terms

  • rosti

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish rost, from Old Norse *rustr, from Proto-Germanic *rustaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.

Noun

rost c

  1. (uncountable) rust
  2. a gridiron, a grill

Declension

Related terms

Anagrams

  • Tors, orts, rots, sort, stor, tros

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  • ROSSER, (slang) a policeman.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)