dish: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 8 letter points · starts with D · ends with H
Meaning of dish
noun
- countable, uncountable
A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
- countable, uncountable
The contents of such a vessel.
Example: a dish of stew
- countable, metonymically, uncountable
A specific type of prepared food.
Example: a vegetable dish
- countable, in-plural, uncountable
Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
Example: It's your turn to wash the dishes.
Listed forms: dishes.
Source: Wiktionary — dish.
verb
- transitive
To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
- informal, slang
To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
- slang
To insult, speak ill of.
- transitive
To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
Example: to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes
Listed forms: dishes, dishing, dished.
Source: Wiktionary — dish.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for dish.
noun
the quantity that a dish will hold
- dishful
noun
a very attractive or seductive looking woman
noun
directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
- dish aerial
- dish antenna
- saucer
noun
an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- cup of tea
- bag
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is dish in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of dish
D(2) + I(1) + S(1) + H(4) = 8 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of dish
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from dish
11 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in dish. Showing up to 24, longest first.