exit: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 11 letter points · starts with E · ends with T
Meaning of exit
noun
An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
Example: He made his exit at the opportune time.
- specifically
An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure. The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
A way out. An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.
Example: emergency exit fire exit
A way out. A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).
Example: There are no services at the next exit.
Listed forms: exits.
Source: Wiktionary — exit.
verb
- intransitive
To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
- intransitive
To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave. To leave a scene or depart from a stage.
- euphemistic, intransitive, often
To depart from life; to die.
- ambitransitive
To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
Listed forms: exits, exiting, exited.
Source: Wiktionary — exit.
verb
- also, figuratively, intransitive
Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.
Source: Wiktionary — exit.
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 exit.
noun
an opening that permits escape or release
noun
euphemistic expressions for death
verb
move out of or depart from
- go out
- get out
- leave
verb
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- die
- decease
- perish
- go
- pass away
- expire
- pass
- kick the bucket
- cash in one's chips
- buy the farm
- conk
- give-up the ghost
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is exit in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of exit
E(1) + X(8) + I(1) + T(1) = 11 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 exit
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 exit
8 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in exit. Showing up to 24, longest first.