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. pronoun, 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. pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb. As an exclamatory word: -- (a) Used absolutely or independently; -- often with a question following.
3. pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb. Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!
4. pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb. Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!
5. pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb. As a relative pronoun
6. pronoun, 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. pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb. Used adjectively, equivalent to the . . . which; the sort or kind of . . . which; rarely, the . . . on, or at, which.
8. pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb. Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw.
9. pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb. Whatever; whatsoever; what thing soever; -- used indefinitely.
10. pronoun, adjective, & adjectivedverb. Used adverbially, in part; partly; somewhat; -- with a following preposition, especially, with, and commonly with repetition.
11. noun. Something; thing; stuff.
12. interrog adjectivedverb. Why? For what purpose? On what account?

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in what:

thaw, wath

Common word forms

whats, whatness

Words from these letters

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