nut: meaning and words from its letters
3 letters · 3 letter points · starts with N · ends with T
Meaning of nut
noun
- broadly
Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
Example: There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
- broadly
Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants. Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
- slang
The head.
Listed forms: nuts.
Source: Wiktionary — nut.
verb
To gather nuts.
- UK, slang, transitive
To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
- mildly, slang, vulgar
To orgasm; to ejaculate.
- slang
To hit in the testicles.
Listed forms: nuts, nutting, nutted.
Source: Wiktionary — nut.
noun
- alt-of, alternative
Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).
Base or related entry: nuth.
Listed forms: nuts.
Source: Wiktionary — nut.
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 nut.
noun
half the width of an em
noun
a whimsically eccentric person
noun
someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
noun
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is nut in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of nut
N(1) + U(1) + T(1) = 3 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 nut
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from nut
3 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in nut. Showing up to 24, longest first.