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Is wrest a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word wrest is a Scrabble US word. The word wrest is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is wrest a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word wrest is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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5-letter words (3 found)

STREW,TREWS,WREST,

4-letter words (12 found)

ERST,EWTS,REST,RETS,REWS,STEW,TEWS,TRES,TREW,WERT,WEST,WETS,

3-letter words (12 found)

ERS,EST,EWT,RES,RET,REW,SER,SET,SEW,TES,TEW,WET,

2-letter words (8 found)

ER,ES,ET,EW,RE,ST,TE,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 36 words from wrest according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of wrest

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Definitions and meaning of wrest

wrest

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rĕst, IPA(key): /ɹɛst/
  • Rhymes: -ɛst
  • Homophone: rest

Etymology 1

From Middle English wresten, wrasten, wræsten, from Old English wrǣstan (“to twist forcibly, wrench”), from Proto-Germanic *wraistijaną, (compare Proto-Germanic *wrīhaną (“to turn, wind; to cover, envelop”), *wrīþaną (“to weave, twist”), Old Norse reista (“to bend, twist”)), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wreiḱ-, *wreyḱ- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”). See also writhe, wry.

The noun is derived from the verb.

Verb

wrest (third-person singular simple present wrests, present participle wresting, simple past and past participle wrested)

  1. (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
  2. (transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force.
  3. (transitive, figuratively) To seize.
  4. (transitive, figuratively) To distort, to pervert, to twist.
  5. (transitive, music) To tune with a wrest, or key.
Derived terms
  • outwrest
  • overwrest
  • wrester
Related terms
  • wrestle
Translations

Noun

wrest (plural wrests)

  1. The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
  2. (music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.
  3. (obsolete) Active or motive power.
  4. (obsolete, rare) Short for saw wrest (“a hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf”); a saw set.
Derived terms
  • saw wrest
  • wrest block
  • wrest pin
  • wrest plank

Etymology 2

Possibly a variant of wrist: see the quotation. Wrist is also derived from *wrīþaną (“to weave, twist”), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wreiḱ-, *wreyḱ- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”).

Noun

wrest (plural wrests)

  1. A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.

Etymology 3

A misspelling of rest, probably influenced by wrest (etymology 1, verb and noun).

Noun

wrest (plural wrests)

  1. (agriculture, dated, dialectal) A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.
Derived terms
  • turnwrest

References

Anagrams

  • Trews, strew, trews, werst

Middle English

Noun

wrest

  1. Alternative form of wrist

Source: wiktionary.org