onto: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 4 letter points · starts with O · ends with O
Meaning of onto
prep
Arriving upon or on top of (speaking of a physical or metaphorical movement).
Example: My cat just jumped onto the keyboard.
- informal
Aware of.
Example: The thought-police were onto my plans of world domination.
Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).
Example: The exponential function maps the set of real numbers onto the set of positive real numbers.
Source: Wiktionary — onto.
adj
- not-comparable
Attaining each of the values in its codomain; having its image equal to its codomain.
Example: Considered as a function on the real numbers, the exponential function is not onto, as it never takes on values less than or equal to zero.
Source: Wiktionary — onto.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is onto in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of onto
O(1) + N(1) + T(1) + O(1) = 4 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 onto
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 onto
7 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in onto. Showing up to 24, longest first.