You can make 66 words from secret according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
Definitions and meaning of secret
secret
Etymology
From Middle Englishsecrette, from Old Frenchsecret, from Latinsēcrētus(“separated, hidden”), from ptp of sēcernō(“separate, to set aside, sunder out”), from cernō, from Proto-Indo-European*krey-. Displaced Old Englishdēagol(“secret”) and dēagolnes(“a secret”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈsiːkɹɪt/
(weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈsiːkɹət/
(obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈsiːkɹɛt/
Hyphenation: se‧cret
Rhymes: -iːkɹɪt, -iːkɹət, -iːkɹɛt
Noun
secret (countable and uncountable, pluralsecrets)
(countable) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden. [from late 14th c.]
May 1 , 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 13
To tell our own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery
The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack.
The secret to a long-lasting marriage is compromise.
Something not understood or known.
(uncountable) Private seclusion.
(archaic, in the plural) The genital organs.
(historical) A form of steel skullcap.
(Christianity, often in the plural) Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the Tridentine Mass, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.
(obsolete) Withdrawn from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.
(obsolete) Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive, separate, apart.
(obsolete) Separate; distinct.
Alternative forms
secrette(obsolete)
Synonyms
see Thesaurus:hidden and Thesaurus:covert
Antonyms
overt
Derived terms
Related terms
secrete
secretion
Translations
Verb
secret (third-person singular simple presentsecrets, present participle(UK)secrettingor(US)secreting, simple past and past participle(UK)secrettedor(US)secreted)
(transitive) To make or keep secret. [from late 16th c.]
1984, Peter Scott Lawrence, Around the mulberry tree, Firefly Books, p. 26
[...] she would unfold the silk, press it with a smooth wooden block that she'd heated in the oven, and then once more secret it away.
1986, InfoWorld, InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.
Diskless workstations [...] make it difficult for individuals to copy information [...] onto a diskette and secret it away.
1994, Phyllis Granoff & Koichi Shinohara, Monks and magicians: religious biographies in Asia, Mosaic Press, p. 50
To prevent the elixir from reaching mankind and thereby upsetting the balance of the universe, two gods secret it away.
(transitive) To hide secretly.
He was so scared for his safety he secreted arms around the house.
Usage notes
All other dictionaries label this sense 'obsolete', but the citations above and on the citations page demonstrate recent usage as part of the idiom "secret [something] away".
The present participle and past forms secreting and secreted are liable to confusion with the corresponding heteronymous forms of the similar verb secrete.
Quotations
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:secret.
Derived terms
secrete
References
“†ˈsecret, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989] Tagged as obsolete. Notes: “In the inflected forms it is not easy to distinguish between ˈsecret and secretev.”
“Se"cret(?), v. t.” listed on page 1,301 of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Se"cret(?), v. t. To keep secret. [Obs.] Bacon.