ishtar
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 6
Definition of ishtar
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
name
- A goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus; the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the northwest-Semitic goddess Astarte.
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒀭𒈹 (Ištar). Doublet of Astarte and Ashtoreth. Despite modern folk-etymology, not related in any way to English Easter.
Words you can make from ishtar
84 playable · top: AIRTHS (9 pts)
Best play airths 9 points5-letter words
14 words4-letter words
29 words- AHIS 7 pts
- HAIR 7 pts
- HART 7 pts
- HAST 7 pts
- HATS 7 pts
- HIST 7 pts
- HITS 7 pts
- RASH 7 pts
- RATH 7 pts
- SHAT 7 pts
- SHIT 7 pts
- SHRI 7 pts
- SITH 7 pts
- TAHR 7 pts
- THIR 7 pts
- THIS 7 pts
- AIRS 4 pts
- AIRT 4 pts
- AITS 4 pts
- ARTS 4 pts
- RAIS 4 pts
- RATS 4 pts
- RIAS 4 pts
- SARI 4 pts
- SATI 4 pts
- STAR 4 pts
- STIR 4 pts
- TARS 4 pts
- TSAR 4 pts
3-letter words
27 words2-letter words
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