Definitions for wheat

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Spelling: [hweet, weet]
IPA: /ʰwit, wit/

Wheat is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in wheat (aehtw).

Definitions for wheat

noun

  1. the grain of any cereal grass of the genus Triticum, especially T. aestivum, used in the form of flour for making bread, cakes, etc., and for other culinary and nutritional purposes.
  2. the plant itself.

Origin of wheat

before 900; Middle English whete, Old English hwǣte; cognate with German Weizen, Old Norse hveiti, Gothic hwaiteis; akin to white

Examples for wheat

I watch the wife of my friend gathering poppies in the wheat.

Which is the wheat and which the tares, that must be garnered or sifted from our loves?

After plane loads of wheat seeds were sent to India in the 1960s, farmers there were able to boost production by a factor of four.

There isn't a bushel of wheat in the country that isn't in the combination.

The wheat which his customers brought in, was stored at the mill and ground.

This one was born in Floral, Saskatchewan, on the outskirts of Saskatoon, in the heart of Western Canada's wheat prairies.

When we got out the cargo, we found it much damaged, particularly the wheat.

A blended scotch whisky is made by combining several single malts with wheat and/or corn whiskies in column stills.

Borlaug and his associates set out to develop strains of wheat that could resist diseases and pests, and thus improve yields.

One more thing: celiac and non-celiac gluten sensitivity are not the same as a wheat allergy.

Word Value for wheat
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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