gate: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 5 letter points · starts with G · ends with E
Meaning of gate
noun
A doorlike structure outside a house.
A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
A movable barrier.
Example: The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
Listed forms: gates, yate.
Source: Wiktionary — gate.
verb
- transitive
To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- transitive
To open (a closed ion channel).
- transitive
To furnish with a gate.
- transitive
To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
Listed forms: gates, gating, gated, yate.
Source: Wiktionary — gate.
noun
- Northern-England, Scotland
A way, path.
- Northern-England, Scotland
A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. “Briggate” (a common street name in the north of England meaning “Bridge Street”) or “Kirkgate” meaning “Church Street”.
- obsolete
A journey.
- Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal
Manner; gait.
Listed forms: gates.
Source: Wiktionary — gate.
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 gate.
noun
a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
- logic gate
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is gate in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of gate
G(2) + A(1) + T(1) + E(1) = 5 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 gate
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 gate
13 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in gate. Showing up to 24, longest first.