Definitions for wort

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Spelling: [wurt, wawrt]
IPA: /wɜrt, wɔrt/

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

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in wort (ortw).

Definitions for wort

noun

  1. the unfermented or fermenting infusion of malt that after fermentation becomes beer or mash.
  2. a plant, herb, or vegetable (now usually used only in combination):
  3. whort.

Origin of wort

before 1000; Middle English; Old English wyrt; cognate with German Würze spice; akin to wort2

Examples for wort

If they be opaque or whey coloured, there is some unsoundness in the wort.

Boil them with the wort, two hours, from the time it begins to boil.

One only thing they feared, and that was the great St. John's wort.

Its quantity must depend upon the temperature, strength, and quantity of the wort.

This frothing and foaming of the wort is a proof that the fermentation is active.

It is unpasteurized and unfiltered, and the wort reaches the boiling point but never boils.

A species of St. John's-wort in bloom, teasels, and a small convolvulus.

I haf been robbed—robbed by Denson himself, wit'out a wort of doubt.

Upon the whole, not more than 100 gallons of wort should be extracted.

The natural reaction of the wort should not be interfered with.

Word Value for wort
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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