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holt
/hoʊlt/ · 4 letters · 4 distinct letters
holt is in Nectary’s accepted word list, but we don’t have a definition for it yet.
Word history
From Middle English holt, from Old English holt (“forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber”), from Proto West Germanic *holt, from Proto Germanic *hultą (“wood”), from Proto Indo European *kald, *klād (“timber, log”), perhaps corresponding to a root noun *kél(h₂)d ~ *kól(h₂)d ~ *kl̥(h₂)d (literally “chopped (wood)”), from Proto Indo European *kelh₂, *kleh₂ (“to beat, hew, break, destroy, kill”).
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Why this word counts
- Where it comes from
- Listed in the English Speller Database at size 70: the largest list we accept, where the rarer words live.
- How common it is
- Used about 5 times in every million words.
- In the spelling bee
- Bonus word Words found only in the largest list score as bonus words rather than daily answers.