You can make 13 words from test according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 4 letters words made out of test
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Definitions and meaning of test
test
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /tɛst/, [tʰɛst]
(New Zealand, General South African) IPA(key): [tʰest]
Rhymes: -ɛst
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishtest, teste, from Old Frenchtest, teste(“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latintestum(“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa(“dry land”). See terra, thirst. The examination sense came via metaphor of the metallurgical sense - the way a metallurgist puts to the test his gold, a teacher may put to the test her students' knowledge.
Noun
test (pluraltests)
A challenge, trial.
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
(cricket, normally "Test") A Test match.
(marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
(botany) Testa; seed coat.
(obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
Synonyms
(challenge, trial):See Thesaurus:test
(academics: examination):examination, quiz
Antonyms
(antonym(s) of "academics: examination"):recess
Hyponyms
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Descendants
Translations
Verb
test (third-person singular simple presenttests, present participletesting, simple past and past participletested)
To challenge, to put a strain on (something).
To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
September 17, 1796, George Washington, Farewell Address
Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
(academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
(copulative) To be shown to be by test.
(chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
(intransitive, transitive, slang) To challenge (someone) to a fight.
Conjugation
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Descendants
German: testen
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishteste, from Old Frenchteste, test and Latintestis(“one who attests, a witness”).
Noun
test (pluraltests)
(obsolete) A witness.
1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.
Verb
test (third-person singular simple presenttests, present participletesting, simple past and past participletested)
(obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
(obsolete, intransitive) To make a testament, or will.
Related terms
attest
contest
detest
protest
Etymology 3
Clipping of testosterone.
Noun
test (uncountable)
(informal, slang, body building) testosterone
Further reading
“test”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
“test”, in The Century Dictionary[…], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
ETTs, Etts, TETS, TETs, Tets, sett, stet, tets
Breton
Noun
test
witness
Catalan
Pronunciation
IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)[ˈtest]
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latintestum(“earthenware pot”), from testa(“piece of burnt clay”). Cognate with Spanishtiesto.
Noun
testm (pluraltestos)
flowerpot
potsherd
Derived terms
pixar fora de test
Related terms
testa
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Englishtest.
Noun
testm (pluraltests)
test(exam or challenge)
Derived terms
testar
testejar
Related terms
tèster
Further reading
“test” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“test”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishtest.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈtɛst]
Hyphenation: test
Noun
testm inan
test
provést test ― to perform a test
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
test in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
test in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
From Middle Dutchtest, from Old Frenchtest, from Latintestum, from testa.
Noun
testm (pluraltestenortests, diminutivetestjen)
A test, an earthen bowl or pot.
A test, a cupel (used in smelting).
Derived terms
vergiettest
vuurtest
Descendants
Afrikaans: tessie
French
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /tɛst/
Etymology 1
From Old Frenchtest, from Latintestum. The orthography of this form reflects semi-learned influence; compare the doublet têt.
Noun
testm (pluraltests)
test, a cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement
(marine biology) test, the external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Englishtest, itself from the same Old Frenchtest as above.
Noun
testm (pluraltests)
a test, a tryout, a review
Derived terms
tester
Further reading
“test”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian
Etymology
Of unknown origin.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈtɛʃt]
Hyphenation: test
Rhymes: -ɛʃt
Noun
test (pluraltestek)
(anatomy) body
(geometry) solid (three-dimensional figure)
(algebra) field (commutative ring)
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
test in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Englishtest.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈtɛst/
Rhymes: -ɛst
Hyphenation: tèst
Noun
testm (invariable)
test
Ladin
Noun
testm (plural [please provide])
text
Latvian
Verb
test (?? missing information, ?? conjugation, present??, past??)
to beat
to knock about
to flog
Maltese
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishtest, ultimately from Latintestum.