root: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 4 letter points · starts with R · ends with T
Meaning of root
noun
- countable, uncountable
The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
Example: This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.
- countable, uncountable
A root vegetable.
- countable, uncountable
The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
Example: Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.
- countable, uncountable
The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
Example: The root is the only part of the hair that is alive.
Listed forms: roots.
Source: Wiktionary — root.
verb
To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
Example: The cuttings are starting to root.
To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
Example: We rooted some cuttings last summer.
To fix firmly; to establish.
- slang, transitive
To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
Example: We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.
Listed forms: roots, rooting, rooted.
Source: Wiktionary — root.
verb
- ambitransitive
To turn up or dig with the snout.
Example: A pig roots the earth for truffles.
- broadly
To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- intransitive
To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
Example: rooting about in a junk-filled drawer
- intransitive
Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
Listed forms: roots, rooting, rooted, wrout, rout, wroot.
Source: Wiktionary — root.
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 root.
noun
the place where something begins, where it springs into being
noun
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
noun
the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
noun
someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- ancestor
- ascendant
- ascendent
- antecedent
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is root in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of root
R(1) + O(1) + O(1) + T(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 root
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 root
8 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in root. Showing up to 24, longest first.