heck
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 4
Definition of heck
14 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included
intj
-
(euphemistic)Hell.
“Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.”
See all 14 definitions Show less
intj
-
(euphemistic)Hell.
“Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.”
noun
-
(euphemistic, uncountable)Hell.
“You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.”
“"And the railway industry needs a heck of a lot of people to be up-skilled," notes Darroch.”
- (informal)The bolt or latch of a door.
- (informal)A rack for cattle to feed at.
- (informal, obsolete)A door, especially one partly of latticework.
- (informal)A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
- (informal)An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
- (informal)A bend or winding of a stream.
verb
- (informal)to break, to destroy
- (informal)to mess up
name
- A hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s.
- A surname, possibly from German.
- A civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck.
- A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY0980).
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell.
Words you can make from heck
2 playable · top: EH (5 pts)
Best play eh 5 points2-letter words
1 wordHooks
2 extensions · 1 front · 1 back
A single letter you can add to heck to make another valid word.
Front
Back
Find your best play with heck
See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes heck, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.