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Is rest a Scrabble word?

Yes, rest is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 4 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of rest?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.Examples: "I need to get a good rest tonight; I was up late last night."; "The sun sets, and the workers go to their rest."Synonyms: sleep, slumberuncountable

2. (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.Examples: "We took a rest at the top of the hill to get our breath back."Synonyms: break, repose, time offcountable

3. (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.Examples: "It was nice to have a rest from the phone ringing when I unplugged it for a while."; "And the land had rest fourscore years."Synonyms: peace, quiet, roo, silence, stillness, tranquilityuncountable

4. (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.Examples: "The boulder came to rest just behind the house after rolling down the mountain."; "The ocean was finally at rest."; "Now that we're all in agreement, we can put that issue to rest."uncountable

5. (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")Examples: "She was laid to rest in the village cemetery."Synonyms: peaceeuphemisticuncountable

6. (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.Examples: "Remember there's a rest at the end of the fourth bar."countable

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.Examples: "My day's work is over; now I will rest."; "I shall not rest until I have uncovered the truth."; "Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest."Synonyms: have a breather, pause, take a break, take time off, take time outintransitive

2. (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.intransitive

3. (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.Examples: "There rest, if any rest can harbour there."intransitive

4. (transitive, reflexive, copulative) To put into a state of rest.Examples: "We need to rest the horses before we ride any further."; "And thereby at a pryory they rested them all nyght."; "With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury."copulativereflexivetransitive

5. (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.Examples: "The blame seems to rest with your father."; "Copyright in the typographical arrangement rests with the Crown."Synonyms: be, lie, remain, reside, stayintransitive

6. (intransitive) To rely or depend on.Examples: "The decision rests on getting a bank loan."; "On him I rested, after long debate, / And not without considering, fixed fate."; "Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it."intransitive

noun (English)

1. (uncountable) That which remains.Examples: "She ate some of the food, but was not hungry enough to eat it all, so she put the rest in the refrigerator to finish later."Synonyms: lave, remainderuncountable

2. (UK, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.UKuncountable

verb (English)

1. (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.Examples: "You can rest assured that a sick child will say when it's again ready to eat, so it won't starve and doesn't need to be cajoled into eating."; "Rest you merry."

2. (transitive, obsolete) To keep a certain way.Examples: "God rest you merry, gentlemen."obsoletetransitive

verb (English)

1. (obsolete, transitive, colloquial) To arrest.colloquialobsoletetransitive

noun (English)

1. (computing) Acronym of representational state transfer.Examples: "Coding a REST API has never felt right to me. I believe that REST APIs should be designed and configured, but not coded."abbreviationacronymalt-ofuncountable

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "rest"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "rest"?

Scrabble
4 points
R1
E1
S1
T1
Words With Friends
4 points
R1
E1
S1
T1

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