Rut in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Rut

You can make 3 words from 'rut' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'rut'
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3 letters words from 'rut'

RUT 3

2 letters words from 'rut'

UR 2

UT 2

Definitions and meaning of rut

rut

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹʌt/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”).

Noun

rut (plural ruts)

1. (zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals. [from early 15th c.]
2. The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
3. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.

Translations

Verb

rut (third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)

1. (intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
2. (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
3. (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.
   • What piety forbids the lusty ram
     Or more salacious goat to rut their dam

Synonyms

• (be in mating season): blissom, brim, bull, oestruate
• (have sexual intercourse): do it, get some, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate
• (have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

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Etymology 2

Probably from Middle English route, from Middle French route (“road”), from Old French route. See also rutter.

Noun

rut (plural ruts)

1. A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: groove, furrow

2. (figuratively) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling. [from 19th c.]

   Synonym: routine

3. (figuratively) A dull routine.

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Verb

rut (third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)

1. (transitive) To make a furrow.

Translations

Further reading

• Rut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• RTU, URT, UTR, tur

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Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• rot (southern Moselle Franconian and Siegerland)

Etymology

From Old High German rōt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʀuːt/

Adjective

rut (masculine rude or ruhe, feminine rut or ruh, comparative ruder or ruher, superlative et rutste)

1. (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) red

Usage notes

• The inflections with loss of -d- are restricted to westernmost Ripuarian.

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French

Etymology

From Old French rut, ruit, inherited from Latin rugītus. Doublet of rugi, past participle of rugir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁyt/

Noun

rut m (plural ruts)

1. rut (sexual excitement)

Further reading

• “rut” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Hungarian

Alternative forms

• rút

Etymology

An onomatopoeia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrut]
• Hyphenation: rut
• Rhymes: -ut

Interjection

rut

1. gobble (representation of the sound of a turkey; can be used repetitively)

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Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German rōt (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.

Akin to German rot, Old Saxon rōd, Old Dutch rōd (modern Dutch rood)

Adjective

rūt

1. red

Source: wiktionary.org

• RUSTRE, a lozenge pierced with a circular opening.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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