want: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 7 letter points · starts with W · ends with T
Meaning of want
verb
- transitive
To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
Example: I want you as a friend, not a foe.
- broadly, transitive
To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand. To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
Example: The game developers of Candy Crush want you to waste large, copious amounts of your money on in-game purchases to buy boosters and lives.
- transitive
To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
Example: Ma’am, you are exactly the professional we want for this job.
- intransitive
To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
Example: You can leave if you want.
Listed forms: wants, wanting, wanted, glossary, wantest.
Source: Wiktionary — want.
noun
- countable
A desire, wish, longing.
- countable
Lack, absence, deficiency.
Example: She showed a want of caution in renting her house to complete strangers.
- uncountable
Poverty.
- countable, uncountable
Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
Listed forms: wants, waunt.
Source: Wiktionary — want.
noun
- dialectal
A mole (Talpa europea).
Listed forms: wants.
Source: Wiktionary — want.
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 want.
noun
a state of extreme poverty
noun
the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
noun
anything that is necessary but lacking
noun
a specific feeling of desire
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is want in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of want
W(4) + A(1) + N(1) + T(1) = 7 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 want
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 want
11 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in want. Showing up to 24, longest first.