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what

what is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost? Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 9 · 12 senses

Definitions

  1. 1pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb

    As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost?

  2. 2pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb

    As an exclamatory word: -- (a) Used absolutely or independently; -- often with a question following.

  3. 3pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb

    Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!

  4. 4pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb

    Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!

  5. 5pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb

    As a relative pronoun

  6. 6pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb

    Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; -- called a compound relative.

  7. 7pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb

    Used adjectively, equivalent to the . . . which; the sort or kind of . . . which; rarely, the . . . on, or at, which.

  8. 8pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb

    Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw.

  9. 9pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb

    Whatever; whatsoever; what thing soever; -- used indefinitely.

  10. 10pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb

    Used adverbially, in part; partly; somewhat; -- with a following preposition, especially, with, and commonly with repetition.

  11. 11noun

    Something; thing; stuff.

  12. 12interrog adjectivedverb

    Why? For what purpose? On what account?

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in what:

thawwath

Common word forms

whatswhatness

Words from these letters

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