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Is silt a Scrabble word?

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

S1I1L1T1

Is silt a Scrabble UK word?

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

S1I1L1T1

Is silt a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word silt is a Words With Friends word. The word silt is worth 5 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1I1L2T1

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4-letter words (5 found)

LIST,LITS,SILT,SLIT,TILS,

3-letter words (6 found)

ITS,LIS,LIT,SIT,TIL,TIS,

2-letter words (6 found)

IS,IT,LI,SI,ST,TI,

You can make 17 words from silt according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of silt

silt

English

Etymology

From Middle English silte, cilte, cylte, perhaps from Middle English silen ("to filter; strain"; equivalent to sile +‎ -t), or cognate with Norwegian and Danish sylt (“salt marsh”), Middle Low German sulte (“salt-marsh”), German Sülze (“meat in aspic”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“salty water; brine”). Related to Old English sealt (“salt”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɪlt/
  • Rhymes: -ɪlt

Noun

silt (countable and uncountable, plural silts)

  1. (uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
    Synonym: slitch
  2. (uncountable, by extension) Any material with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or transport.
  3. (countable, geology) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

Translations

See also

  • alluvium
  • varve

Verb

silt (third-person singular simple present silts, present participle silting, simple past and past participle silted)

  1. (transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
  2. (intransitive) To become clogged with silt.
  3. (ambitransitive) To flow through crevices; to percolate.

Derived terms

  • silt up
  • silting
  • desilt and desilting

Translations

Anagrams

  • &lits, List, list, lits, slit, tils

Danish

Noun

silt (singular definite -en, not used in plural form)

  1. (geology) silt

Derived terms

  • siltsten

Dutch

Noun

silt n (plural silten)

  1. (geology) silt

Derived terms

  • siltsteen

Anagrams

  • list, stil

French

Noun

silt m (plural silts)

  1. (geology) silt

Derived terms

  • siltite

Indonesian

Noun

silt (plural silt-silt)

  1. (geology) silt
    Synonym: debu

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English silt.

Noun

silt (definite singular silten)

  1. silt

Derived terms

  • siltstein

References

  • “silt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English silt.

Noun

silt (definite singular silten)

  1. silt

Derived terms

  • siltstein

References

  • “silt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

silt c (uncountable)

  1. (geology) silt

Derived terms

  • siltsten

Anagrams

  • list, lits, slit, stil

Source: wiktionary.org