mortgage: meaning and words from its letters
8 letters · 12 letter points · starts with M · ends with E
Meaning of mortgage
noun
- countable, uncountable
A legal agreement in which a borrower pledges real property as collateral for a loan used to purchase or refinance that property.
- countable, obsolete, uncountable
The state of being pledged.
Example: lands given in mortgage
Listed forms: mortgages, morgage.
Source: Wiktionary — mortgage.
verb
- transitive
To borrow against a property, to obtain a loan for another purpose by giving away the right of seizure to the lender over a fixed property such as a house or piece of land; to pledge a property in order to get a loan.
Example: to mortgage a property, an estate, or a shop
- figuratively, transitive
To pledge and make liable; to make subject to obligation; to achieve an immediate result by paying for it in the long term.
Listed forms: mortgages, mortgaging, mortgaged, morgage.
Source: Wiktionary — mortgage.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is mortgage in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of mortgage
M(3) + O(1) + R(1) + T(1) + G(2) + A(1) + G(2) + E(1) = 12 points.
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Anagrams of mortgage
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 mortgage
152 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in mortgage. Showing up to 24, longest first.