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Is suit a Scrabble word?

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

S1U1I1T1

Is suit a Scrabble UK word?

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

S1U1I1T1

Is suit a Words With Friends word?

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

S1U2I1T1

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Valid words made from Suit

You can make 16 words from 'suit' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.


4 letters words from 'suit'

SUIT 4TUIS 4
UTIS 4 

3 letters words from 'suit'

ITS 3SIT 3
SUI 3TIS 3
TUI 3UTS 3

2 letters words from 'suit'

IS 2IT 2
SI 2ST 2
TI 2US 2
UT 2 

All 4 letters words made out of suit

suit usit siut isut uist iust suti usti stui tsui utsi tusi situ istu stiu tsiu itsu tisu uits iuts utis tuis itus tius

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word suit. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in suit.

Definitions and meaning of suit

suit

Etymology

From Middle English sute, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suite and Old French sieute, siute (modern suite), originally a participle adjective from Vulgar Latin *sequita (for secūta), from Latin sequi (“to follow”), because the component garments "follow each other", i.e. are worn together. See also the doublet suite. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Related to sue and segue.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s(j)uːt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /s(j)ut/
  • Rhymes: -uːt
  • Homophone: soot (in some dialects)

Noun

suit (plural suits)

  1. A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
  2. (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
  3. (by extension) A single garment that does not cover the whole body, such as a swimsuit.
  4. (derogatory, slang, metonymically) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
  5. A full set of armour.
  6. (law) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
  7. (obsolete): The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
  8. Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
    • 1725, Alexander Pope, Odyssey (original by Homer)
      Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
      Till this funereal web my labors end.
  9. (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
  10. The full set of sails required for a ship.
  12. (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
    • 1785, William Cowper, The Task
      To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
      Her mingled suits and sequences.
  13. (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
    • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Vicissitude of Things
    Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.
  14. (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
  15. (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

  • suite

Translations

See also

References

  • suit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

suit (third-person singular simple present suits, present participle suiting, simple past and past participle suited)

  1. (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
  2. (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item, transitive) To be suitable or apt for one's image.
  3. (transitive) To be appropriate or apt for.
    • c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock
      Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.
  4. (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
  5. To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.
  6. (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)
    Synonyms: agree, match, answer

Derived terms

  • suited and booted
  • suit up
  • suit yourself
  • unsuited

Translations

Anagrams

  • ITUs, Situ, TUIs, Tsui, UTIs, iust, situ, tuis, utis

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɥi/
  • Rhymes: -ɥi
  • Homophone: suis

Verb

suit

  1. third-person singular present indicative of suivre

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsu.it/, [ˈs̠uɪt̪]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsu.it/, [ˈsuːit̪]

Verb

suit

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of suō

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English suit.

Noun

suit m (plural suits)

  1. (Jersey) suit (of clothes)

Synonyms

  • fa

Source: wiktionary.org
  • SUINT, a natural grease found in the wool of sheep.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)