hole: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 7 letter points · starts with H · ends with E
Meaning of hole
noun
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
Example: I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg. I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.
An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
Example: There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it.
In games. A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
In games. The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
Example: I played 18 holes yesterday. The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.
Listed forms: holes.
Source: Wiktionary — hole.
verb
- transitive
To make holes in (an object or surface).
Example: Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
- broadly, transitive
To destroy.
Example: She completely holed the argument.
- intransitive
To go into a hole.
- transitive
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
Example: Woods holed a standard three foot putt
Listed forms: holes, holing, holed.
Source: Wiktionary — hole.
adj
- alt-of, obsolete
Obsolete spelling of whole.
Base or related entry: whole.
- alt-of, misspelling
Misspelling of whole.
Base or related entry: whole.
Listed forms: holer, holest.
Source: Wiktionary — hole.
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 hole.
noun
one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
- golf hole
noun
a depression hollowed out of solid matter
noun
informal terms for a difficult situation
noun
informal terms for the mouth
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is hole in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of hole
H(4) + O(1) + L(1) + E(1) = 7 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 hole
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 hole
8 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in hole. Showing up to 24, longest first.