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Is salt a Scrabble word?

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

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What is the meaning of salt?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.countableuncountable

2. (uncommon, countable) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.countableuncommon

3. (slang, countable) A sailor (also old salt).Examples: "Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts."; "I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook."countableslang

4. (cryptography) A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.countableuncountable

5. (obsolete, uncountable) Flavour; taste; seasoning.Examples: "Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen […] we have some salt of our youth in us."obsoleteuncountable

6. (obsolete, uncountable) Piquancy; wit; sense.Examples: "Attic salt"obsoleteuncountable

adj (English)

1. (figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.Examples: "I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me […]."figurativelyobsolete

2. (figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.Examples: "It is impossible you should see this, / Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, / As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross / As ignorance made drunk."; "And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their accesse to her, and every way keeping such a coyle with her, as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]"figurativelyobsolete

3. (colloquial, archaic) Costly; expensive.archaiccolloquial

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To add salt to.Examples: "to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter"Synonyms: salt downtransitive

2. (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.Examples: "The brine begins to salt."intransitive

3. (nautical, of a ship) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.

4. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.

5. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.

6. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.Examples: "The composition of the fallout can also be changed by "salting" the weapon to be detonated. This consists in the inclusion of significant quantities of certain elements, possibly enriched in specific isotopes, for the purpose of producing induced radioactivity. There are several reasons why a weapon might be salted."transitive

noun (English)

1. (obsolete) A bounding; a leaping; a prance.Examples: "[…] he hath the skill to draw Their nectar forth, with kissing; and could make More wanton salts from this brave promontory, Down to this valley, than the nimble roe;"obsolete

name (English)

1. (politics) Acronym of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.abbreviationacronymalt-of

noun (English)

1. (US, politics, usually attributive) Acronym of state and local tax(es) [deduction], a tax deduction whereby some portion of the money paid as taxes to state and local governments is not taxed at the federal level; the tax-deductible portion is nominally capped, but the cap is circumventable via special-interest loopholes.Examples: "Both the SALT limitations and the doubled standard deduction expire after 2025, putting SALT on the 2025 menu for lawmakers."; "In general, income taxes paid or accrued in carrying on a trade or business or an income-producing activity are subject to the SALT cap. The SALT cap is set to expire for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025."USabbreviationacronymalt-ofattributiveusually

2. (UK, healthcare) Acronym of speech and language therapist.UKabbreviationacronymalt-of

3. (UK, healthcare) Acronym of speech and language therapy.UKabbreviationacronymalt-of

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "salt"?

Scrabble
4 points
S1
A1
L1
T1
Words With Friends
5 points
S1
A1
L2
T1

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