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Is smidgen a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word smidgen is a Scrabble US word. The word smidgen is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is smidgen a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word smidgen is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

S1M3I1D2G2E1N1

Is smidgen a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word smidgen is a Words With Friends word. The word smidgen is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1M4I1D2G3E1N2

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7-letter words (1 found)

SMIDGEN,

6-letter words (11 found)

DEIGNS,DENIMS,DESIGN,DINGES,MIDGES,MINGED,MINGES,SDEIGN,SIGNED,SINGED,SMIDGE,

5-letter words (26 found)

DEIGN,DEISM,DENIM,DENIS,DIMES,DINES,DINGE,DINGS,DISME,MEINS,MENDS,MENGS,MIDGE,MIENS,MINDS,MINED,MINES,MINGE,MINGS,NIDES,SDEIN,SEGNI,SENGI,SINED,SINGE,SNIDE,

4-letter words (55 found)

DEGS,DENI,DENS,DESI,DIES,DIGS,DIME,DIMS,DINE,DING,DINS,EGIS,ENDS,ENGS,GEDS,GEMS,GENS,GIDS,GIED,GIEN,GIES,GINS,GISM,IDEM,IDES,INGS,MEDS,MEGS,MEIN,MEND,MENG,MIDS,MIEN,MIGS,MIND,MINE,MING,MISE,NEDS,NEGS,NIDE,NIDS,NIED,NIES,NIMS,SEMI,SEND,SIDE,SIEN,SIGN,SIND,SINE,SING,SNED,SNIG,

3-letter words (45 found)

DEG,DEI,DEN,DIE,DIG,DIM,DIN,DIS,EDS,EMS,END,ENG,ENS,GED,GEM,GEN,GID,GIE,GIN,GIS,IDE,IDS,ING,INS,ISM,MED,MEG,MEN,MES,MID,MIG,MIS,NED,NEG,NID,NIE,NIM,NIS,SED,SEG,SEI,SEN,SIG,SIM,SIN,

2-letter words (14 found)

DE,DI,ED,EM,EN,ES,GI,ID,IN,IS,ME,MI,NE,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 153 words from smidgen according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of smidgen

smidgen

Alternative forms

  • smidge, smidgeon, smidget, smidgin

Etymology

Likely based on a variant of smiddum, smeddum (“fine powder”), influenced by Scots smitch (“stain, speck, small amount, trace”). Alternatively, from *smitching, a diminutive of smitch. Compare Northumbrian dialectal English smiddum (“small particle of lead ore; smitham”). Scots smitch, also smutch, likely derives from English dialectal smit, smite (“bit, small portion”), Old English smytta, smitta (“a smear, blot, spot, mark, pollution”), related to Old English smītan (“to daub, smear, smudge”); or possibly from *smuddian, *smyddan, *smydecian, *smydegian (“to soil, stain, taint, blacken”), perhaps related to Middle Low German smudde (“dirt, filth”), smudden (“to soil, make dirty”), Middle High German smotzen (“to be dirty”). If so, then cognate with smudge.

Alternate etymology connects smidgeon with Scottish Gaelic smidin (“small syllable”), though this is highly improbable considering the implied semantic shift that would have to have occurred.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsmɪd͡ʒən/
  • Rhymes: -ɪdʒən, -ɪdʒɪn

Noun

smidgen (plural smidgens)

  1. A very small quantity or amount.
    Synonyms: hair's breadth; see also Thesaurus:modicum

Usage notes

Some cookbooks and manufacturers of kitchen measurement sets have attempted to define a smidgen for recipes. Anything between 1⁄25 and 1⁄48 of a teaspoon may be found, 1⁄32 being perhaps the most commonly used. Other commonly used measures for small amounts include tad, dash, pinch, and drop. There seems to be some consensus of tad being the largest in this set and a smidgen being larger than a drop but smaller than a pinch.

Derived terms

  • a smidgen

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Anagrams

  • Demings, Dengism

Source: wiktionary.org