Definitions for newts

newts newt

Spelling: [noot, nyoot]
IPA: /nut, nyut/

Newts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in newts (enstw).

Definitions for newts

noun

  1. any of several brilliantly colored salamanders of the family Salamandridae, especially those of the genera Triturus and Notophthalmus, of North America, Europe, and northern Asia.
  2. any of various other small salamanders.

Origin of newts

1375-1425; late Middle English newte, for ewte (the phrase an ewte being taken as a newte; cf. nickname), variant of evet, Old English efete e

Examples for newts

The new jaw, or leg, is a newt's, and never by any accident more like that of a frog.

I'd like to know what newt Copley thinks of the Barville nine.

As you might guess, newt is decidedly one of the people to which these agencies cater.

Of course every living speck, amoeba or newt, has its own individual soul.

This was done masterfully by newt Gingrich in the debate before the South Carolina primary.

He seized newt Elkey by the arm and said, "What does she do?"

My CNN colleague newt Gingrich was Republican Speaker of the House when the Defense of Marriage Act was signed into law.

This is more exciting than the newt Gingrich congressional triumph of 1994.

I never heard of any; but I wanted a newt, and so I proposed that we should fish here.

He tried to pass healthcare reform but newt Gingrich and the GOP-controlled House and Senate shot it down.

Word Value for newts
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7

Words with friends

8

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