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Yes. The word taint is a Scrabble US word. The word taint is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (3 found)

TAINT,TANTI,TITAN,

4-letter words (6 found)

ANTI,TAIN,TAIT,TIAN,TINA,TINT,

3-letter words (13 found)

AIN,AIT,ANI,ANT,ATT,ITA,NAT,NIT,TAI,TAN,TAT,TIN,TIT,

2-letter words (8 found)

AI,AN,AT,IN,IT,NA,TA,TI,

You can make 30 words from taint according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of taint

taint atint tiant itant aitnt iatnt tanit atnit tnait ntait antit natit tinat itnat tniat ntiat intat nitat aintt iantt anitt naitt inatt niatt taitn atitn tiatn itatn aittn iattn tatin attin ttain ttain attin tatin titan ittan ttian ttian ittan titan aittn iattn atitn taitn itatn tiatn tanti atnti tnati ntati antti natti tatni attni ttani ttani attni tatni tntai nttai ttnai ttnai nttai tntai antti natti atnti tanti ntati tnati tinta itnta tnita ntita intta nitta titna ittna ttina ttina ittna titna tntia nttia ttnia ttnia nttia tntia intta nitta itnta tinta ntita tnita aintt iantt anitt naitt inatt niatt aitnt iatnt atint taint itant tiant antit natit atnit tanit ntait tnait intat nitat itnat tinat ntiat tniat

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Definitions and meaning of taint

taint

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /teɪnt/
  • Rhymes: -eɪnt

Etymology 1

From Middle French teint, from Old French teint (past participle of teindre (“to dye, to tinge”)), from Latin tinctum (past participle of tingere); compare tint.

Noun

taint (plural taints)

  1. A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
  2. A tinge, trace or touch.
  3. A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
  4. (obsolete) Tincture; hue; colour.
  5. (obsolete) Infection; corruption; deprivation.
  6. (programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
    • 2006, Jim Chow, Stanford University. Computer Science Dept, Understanding data lifetime (page 33)
      Using Apache version 1.3.29 and Perl version 5.8.2, we tracked the following sequence of taints […]
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Verb

taint (third-person singular simple present taints, present participle tainting, simple past and past participle tainted)

  1. (transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
  2. (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.
  3. (intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
  4. (intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
    Meat soon taints in warm weather.
  5. (transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
  6. (transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
Synonyms
  • (to contaminate): leper (rare)
Related terms
  • tainture
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English taynt, aphetic form of attaynt, atteynt, from Old French atteinte (“a blow, stroke”). Compare with attaint.

Noun

taint (plural taints)

  1. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
  2. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
Translations

Verb

taint (third-person singular simple present taints, present participle tainting, simple past and past participle tainted)

  1. (transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
  2. (intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

Etymology 3

Reportedly from the phrase “'tain't your balls and 'tain't your ass”. Ascribed to E.E. Landy's Underground Dict. (1972) is the following explanation: ‘'taint their ass and 'taint their pussy.’

Noun

taint (plural taints)

  1. (US, vulgar, slang) The perineum.
Translations

Etymology 4

Contraction of it ain't.

Contraction

taint

  1. Alternative spelling of 'taint

References

  • “taint”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “taint”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • Nitta, Tanit, Titan, nitta, tinta, titan

Source: wiktionary.org