salt: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 4 letter points · starts with S · ends with T
Meaning of salt
noun
- countable, uncountable
A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.
- countable, uncountable
One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
- countable, uncommon
A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
- countable, slang
A sailor (also old salt).
Listed forms: salts.
Source: Wiktionary — salt.
adj
Of water: containing salt, saline.
Example: Why the Sea is Salt
Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.
Example: salt beef
Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.
Example: a salt marsh
Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.
Example: salt grass
Source: Wiktionary — salt.
verb
- transitive
To add salt to.
- intransitive
To deposit salt as a saline solution.
Example: The brine begins to salt.
To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have. To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
Listed forms: salts, salting, salted.
Source: Wiktionary — salt.
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 salt.
noun
white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
- table salt
- common salt
noun
the taste experience when common salt is taken into 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 salt in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of salt
S(1) + A(1) + L(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 salt
4 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from salt
9 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in salt. Showing up to 24, longest first.