earth: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 8 letter points · starts with E · ends with H
Meaning of earth
noun
- uncountable
Soil.
Example: This is good earth for growing potatoes.
- uncountable
Any general rock-based material.
Example: She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.
- countable, uncountable
The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
Example: Birds are of the sky, not of the earth.
- UK, countable, uncountable
A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
Listed forms: earths, airth, erd, yearth.
Source: Wiktionary — earth.
verb
- UK, transitive
To connect electrically to the earth.
Example: That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed.
- transitive
To bury.
- transitive
To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
- intransitive
To burrow.
Listed forms: earths, earthing, earthed, airth, erd, yearth.
Source: Wiktionary — earth.
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 earth.
noun
the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
noun
the solid part of the earth's surface
noun
the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
- worldly concern
- earthly concern
- world
noun
a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is earth in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of earth
E(1) + A(1) + R(1) + T(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 earth
3 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from earth
42 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in earth. Showing up to 24, longest first.