garbage: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 11 letter points · starts with G · ends with E
Meaning of garbage
noun
- Australia, Canada, US, uncountable
Food waste material of any kind.
- Australia, Canada, US, uncountable
Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
Example: The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
- Australia, Canada, US, uncountable
Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.
Example: Compost goes in the brown bin and is picked up Monday, recycling goes in blue bags and is picked up Wednesday, and garbage goes in black bags and is picked up Thursday.
- Australia, Canada, US, uncountable
A place or receptacle for waste material.
Example: He threw the newspaper into the garbage.
Listed forms: garbidge.
Source: Wiktionary — garbage.
verb
- Australia, Canada, US, obsolete, transitive
to eviscerate
Listed forms: garbages, garbaging, garbaged, garbidge.
Source: Wiktionary — garbage.
adj
- Australia, Canada, US, informal, not-comparable
bad, crap, shitty
Listed forms: garbidge.
Source: Wiktionary — garbage.
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 garbage.
noun
food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
noun
a worthless message
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is garbage in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of garbage
G(2) + A(1) + R(1) + B(3) + A(1) + G(2) + E(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 garbage
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 garbage
47 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in garbage. Showing up to 24, longest first.