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Is swot a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word swot is a Scrabble US word. The word swot is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is swot a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word swot is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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Is swot a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word swot is a Words With Friends word. The word swot is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (7 found)

OWTS,STOW,SWOT,TOWS,TWOS,WOST,WOTS,

3-letter words (7 found)

OWT,SOT,SOW,TOW,TWO,WOS,WOT,

2-letter words (6 found)

OS,OW,SO,ST,TO,WO,

You can make 20 words from swot according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of swot

swot

English

Alternative forms

  • swat

Etymology

From a dialectal English word, from Middle English swot, swat, from Old English swāt (“perspiration; sweat”), from Proto-Germanic *swaitą (“sweat”). More at sweat.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /swɒt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /swɑt/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /swɔt/
  • Homophone: swat
  • Rhymes: -ɒt

Verb

swot (third-person singular simple present swots, present participle swotting, simple past and past participle swotted)

  1. (intransitive, slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) To study with effort or determination. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
    Synonym: cram

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • hit the books

Noun

swot (countable and uncountable, plural swots)

  1. (slang, British) One who swots; a boffin, nerd, or smart aleck.
  2. (slang, British) Work.
    • Quoted in 1983, Ivor Gurney, ‎Robert Kelsey Rought Thornton, War Letters: A Selection (page 254)
      All I want is — guerre fini, soldat fini; and to go home without burden of any thought save music, and hard swot for a time.
  3. (slang, British) Vigorous study at an educational institution.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

  • swotty

Translations

Anagrams

  • OTWs, Stow, TOWs, Tows, ow'st, stow, tows, twos, wost, wots

Old English

Adjective

swōt

  1. synonym of swēte (“sweet”)

Saterland Frisian

Alternative forms

  • swoot

Etymology

From Old Frisian swart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart. Cognates include German schwarz and West Frisian swart.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /svɔt/
  • Hyphenation: swot
  • Rhymes: -ɔt

Adjective

swot (masculine swotten, feminine, plural or definite swotte, comparative swotter, superlative swotst)

  1. black

References

  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “swot”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Source: wiktionary.org