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IPA: /mut/

Moot is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in moot (moot).

Definitions for moot

noun

1. an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
2. an argument or discussion, especially of a hypothetical legal case.
3. Obsolete. a debate, argument, or discussion.
4. a ring gauge for checking the diameters of treenails.

adjective

1. open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful:
2. of little or no practical value, meaning, or relevance; purely academic:
3. Chiefly Law. not actual; theoretical; hypothetical.

verb (used with object)

1. to present or introduce (any point, subject, project, etc.) for discussion.
2. to reduce or remove the practical significance of; make purely theoretical or academic.
3. Archaic. to argue (a case), especially in a mock court.
4. to bring (a treenail) to the proper diameter with a moot.

Origin of moot

before 900; Middle English mot(e) meeting, assembly, Old English gemōt; cognate with Old Norse mōt, Dutch gemoet meeting. See meet¹

Examples for moot

The etymology of the word koldun is still, I believe, a moot point.

But the positives are moot if people fail to recognize the problem of eWaste and to realize they can do their part to reduce it.

The use of phonetic transcription, however, is a moot question.

If Gov. Dave Heineman wants the job, I suspect he'll win the primary in a landslide, making this post a moot point.

The question of a tonsilectomy had been a moot one for years.

The question of whether the story is fit for publication is now moot.

The actual temperature of the moon's surface by day is a moot point.

If true, the need for gender testing may be moot soon enough.

The great hall of the moot Hall in Colchester was filling rapidly.

Which is why the third of the Journal editorial's three key paragraphs is moot.