Is HESITATE a word?
HESITATE is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words With Friends, has 8 letters, and can be rearranged into 1 other word, plus 60 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, HESITATE is a valid word.
What does hesitate mean?
verb: pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness.
“Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures”
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
HESITATE: word details
- Pronunciation: HEH-zuh-tayt (approx., 3 syllables)
- Length: 8 letters, a long word. It is one of 40,530 8-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 11 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 10 points on the tiles.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Anagrams of hesitate
Shorter words inside hesitate
Words you can make from the letters of hesitate.
Solve a whole rack, not just HESITATE
HESITATE is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does HESITATE mean?
HESITATE is a verb. It means: pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness.
Is HESITATE a valid word?
Yes, HESITATE is a valid word. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.