salt

NOUNVERBADJECTIVE /sɔlt/
4 LETTERS · 1 SYLLABLE · STARTS WITH S

salt is a valid 4-letter word worth 4 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.

SCRABBLE WORDS WITH FRIENDS
S1A1L1T1
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =4 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 8TRIPLE WORD → 12
MEANING

What does salt mean?

NOUN · 4 SENSES
1

The taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth.

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2

Negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons.

3

White crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food.

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4

A compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal).

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VERB · 4 SENSES
1

Add salt to.

2

Add zest or liveliness to.

“She salts her lectures with jokes”

3

Preserve with salt.

“people used to salt meats on ships”

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4

Sprinkle as if with salt.

“the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps”

ADJECTIVE · 1 SENSE
1

(of speech) painful or bitter.

“salt scorn”

“a salt apology”

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