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

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

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4-letter words (2 found)

WIST,WITS,

3-letter words (5 found)

ITS,SIT,TIS,WIS,WIT,

2-letter words (5 found)

IS,IT,SI,ST,TI,

You can make 12 words from wist according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of wist

wist

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɪst/
  • Rhymes: -ɪst

Etymology 1

Past indicative of wit: from Old English witan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Cognate with Dutch weten, German wissen, Swedish veta, and Latin videō (“I see”). Compare guide.

Verb

wist

  1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of wit.
    • a1796, Robert Burns, "Bonie Jean: A Ballad", in Poems and Songs, P.F. Collier & Son (1909–14), Bartleby.com (2001), [1],
      And lang ere witless Jeanie wist, / Her heart was tint, her peace was stown!

Etymology 2

A misunderstanding, or a joking use of the past indicative of wit; see Etymology 1.

Verb

wist (third-person singular simple present wists, present participle wisting, simple past and past participle wisted)

  1. (nonstandard, pseudo-archaic) To know, be aware of.
Usage notes
  • This use of wist was never a part of the regular English language; rather, it resulted from the erroneous attempted use of archaisms.

Anagrams

  • WITs, WSIT, wits

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪst

Verb

wist

  1. singular past indicative of weten
  2. inflection of wissen:
    1. second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. (archaic) plural imperative

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wist/

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *wisti (“essence”).

Noun

wist f

  1. being, existence
  2. well-being
Declension

Strong i-stem:

Derived terms
  • andwist
  • midwist
  • nēawist
  • samodwist
Descendants
  • Middle English: wiste, wyste

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *wisti (“food”).

Noun

wist f

  1. provisions, food
  2. feast, meal
  3. delicacy
  4. abundance, plenty
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Declension

Strong i-stem:

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English whist.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvist/
  • Rhymes: -ist
  • Syllabification: wist

Noun

wist m inan

  1. whist (card game)

Declension

Further reading

  • wist in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • wist in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Source: wiktionary.org