step: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 6 letter points · starts with S · ends with P
Meaning of step
noun
An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
Listed forms: steps.
Source: Wiktionary — step.
verb
- intransitive
To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
- intransitive
To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession. To don with a stepping action.
Example: He stepped into his pants.
- intransitive
To walk; to go (on foot, especially) a little distance.
Example: Come one, come all. Step right up!
- intransitive
To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
Listed forms: steps, stepping, stepped, stept, stope.
Source: Wiktionary — step.
noun
- colloquial
A stepchild.
- colloquial
A stepsibling.
Listed forms: steps.
Source: Wiktionary — step.
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 step.
noun
any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
noun
the distance covered by a step
noun
support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
noun
relative position in a graded series
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is step in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of step
S(1) + T(1) + E(1) + P(3) = 6 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 step
3 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from step
8 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in step. Showing up to 24, longest first.