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

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

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4-letter words (5 found)

ORTS,ROST,ROTS,SORT,TORS,

3-letter words (5 found)

ORS,ORT,ROT,SOT,TOR,

2-letter words (5 found)

OR,OS,SO,ST,TO,

You can make 15 words from rost according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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

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Definitions and meaning of rost

rost

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹəʊst/

Etymology 1

Noun

rost (plural rosts)

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

References

  • “rost”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

Verb

rost (third-person singular simple present rosts, present participle rosting, simple past and past participle rosted)

  1. Obsolete form of roast.
    • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 82-85,[1]
      Well Masters if you will eate nothing take away: Come, what doo we to passe away the time? Lay a crab in the fire to rost for Lambes-wooll […]

Noun

rost (countable and uncountable, plural rosts)

  1. Obsolete form of roast.

Adjective

rost (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete form of roast.

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

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps of pre-Roman origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈrɔst]

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

Further reading

  • “rost” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “rost” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Verb

rost

  1. past participle of rose

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔst

Adjective

rost

  1. superlative degree of ros

Anagrams

  • rots, stro, tros

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Uncertain. 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’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). 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’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). 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

Noun

rost

  1. Alternative form of roste (“roast”)

Etymology 2

Noun

rost

  1. Alternative form of rust

Etymology 3

Verb

rost

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

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *orstъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɔst/
  • Rhymes: -ɔst
  • Syllabification: rost

Noun

rost m inan

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of wzrost

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

  • rost in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

rost n (plural rosturi)

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

Declension

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 (on iron or steel)
  2. (uncountable) rust (plant disease)
  3. a gridiron, a grill

Declension

Derived terms

  • rostfri
  • rostpendel
  • rostskydd

Related terms

  • rosta
  • rostig

References

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

Anagrams

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

Talysh

Etymology

Cognate with Persian راست (rāst).

Adjective

rost

  1. right (dexter)

Source: wiktionary.org