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Definition: Guitar |
GuitarNoun1. A stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "guitar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Guitar \Gui*tar"\, noun. [French expression guitare; compare to Pr., Spanish, Portuguese guitarra, Italian chitarra; all from Greek; compare to Latin cithara. Compare to Cittern, Gittern.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you have a guitar, or is playing one in a dream, signifies a merry gathering and serious love making. For a young woman to think it is unstrung or broken, foretells that disappointments in love are sure to overtake her. Upon hearing the weird music of a guitar, the dreamer should fortify herself against flattery and soft persuasion, for she is in danger of being tempted by a fascinating evil. If the dreamer be a man, he will be courted, and will be likely to lose his judgment under the wiles of seductive women. If you play on a guitar, your family affairs will be harmonious. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Guitar (Greek, kithara; Latin, cithara; Italian, chitarra; French, guitare. The Greek kithar is the Hindu cha-tar (six-strings). Guitar. The best players on this instrument have been Guiliani, Sor, Zoechi, Stoll, and Horetzsky. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | German (Klampfe). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An electric guitar is a type of guitar with a solid or semi-solid body that utilizes electromagnetic "pickups" to convert the vibration of the steel-cored strings into electrical current. The current may be electrically altered to achieve various tonal effects prior to being fed into an amplifier, which produces the resultant sound. In contrast to most stringed instruments, the electric guitar does not rely as extensively on the acoustic properties of its construction to amplify the sound produced by the vibrating strings; as such, the electric guitar does not need to be naturally loud, and its body can be virtually any shape.
Two very different guitars
Left: Rosa Hurricane
Right: Maton FreshmanThe electric guitar is used extensively in many popular styles of music, including blues, rock and roll, country music, pop music and jazz.
History
Electric guitars were originally designed by luthiers (those who tune and repair stringed instruments) and acoustic guitar manufacturers. Some of the earliest electric guitars used tungsten pickups and were manufactured in the 1930s by Rickenbacker. The popularity of the electric guitar began with the Big band era, the amplified instruments being necessary to compete with the loud volumes of the large brass sections common to jazz orchestras of the thirties and forties. Initially, electric guitars consisted primarily of hollow "archtop" acoustic guitar bodies to which electromagnetic transducers had been attached.
The version of the instrument that is most well known today is the "solid body" electric guitar: a guitar made of solid wood, without resonating airspaces within it. The first solid body electric guitar was designed by musician and inventor Les Paul, working after hours in the Epiphone Guitar factory. His "log" guitar, so called because it consisted of a simple rectangular block of wood with a neck attached to it, is generally considered to be the first solid body electric guitar. Les Paul claims to have developed his first solid body electric guitar as early as 1941).
Gibson, like many luthiers, had experimented with pickups on acoustic guitars already, but it was in the 1950s that the Gibson Les Paul, the instrument that would become their trademark, was introduced to the market and established their dominance of the industry. Les Paul has claimed that credit for the invention belongs to him; however, in the late 1940s, electrician and amplifier maker Leo Fender, through his eponymous company, introduced the Fender Broadcaster, soon thereafter renamed the Fender Telecaster for trademark reasons. Some people suggest that Paul Bigsby was pursuing similar development paths at the same time. In 1954 Fender introduced the Stratocaster, or Strat, which had become by the late sixties the most widely played guitar on the market. Fender also invented the electric bass. Unlike the more traditionally styled and crafted Gibson instruments, Fender's guitars and basses pioneered the modular, and hence much less expensive, method of guitar making in which the body and neck of the guitar were crafted separately, using commonly available woodworking tools, and then bolted together to form a complete guitar. Today, the design of electric guitars by most companies echoes one of the two classic designs: the Les Paul or the Stratocaster.
Types of electric guitar
Most electric guitars are fitted with six strings and are usually tuned from low to high E - A - D - G - B - E, the same as an acoustic guitar, although some modern guitarists tune their guitars lower to produce a "heavier" sound. Seven-string models exist, most of which add a low B string below the E, and were made popular by Steve Vai and modern day nu metal bands. Jimmy Page, an innovator of hard rock, used and made famous custom Gibson electric guitars with two necks - essentially two instruments in one. These are commonly known as double neck (or, less commonly, twin neck) guitars. The purpose is to obtain different ranges of sound from each instrument; typical combinations are six-string and four-string (guitar and bass guitar) or, more commonly, a six-string and twelve-string. English progressive rock bands such as Genesis took this trend to its zenith using custom made instruments produced by the Shergold company.
Some electric guitars have a tremolo arm or whammy bar, which is a lever attached to the bridge that can slacken or elongate the strings temporarily, changing the pitch or creating a vibrato. (Tremolo properly refers to a quick variation of volume, not pitch; however, the misnaming is too established to change.) Eddie Van Halen often uses this feature to embellish his playing, as heard in Van Halen's "Eruption". Early tremolo arms tended to cause the guitar to go out of tune with extended use; an important innovator in this field was Floyd Rose, who introduced one of the first tremolos which allowed the guitar to stay in tune, even after heavy use.
A "MIDI guitar" is an electric guitar fitted with sensors for sound and note articulation. It is used to transform string vibrations into MIDI messages to control a synthesizer or other electronic musical instrument.
Electric guitar sound and effects
An acoustic guitar's sound is largely dependent on the vibration of the guitar's body and the air within it; the sound of an electric guitar is largely dependent on an electrical signal, generated by the vibration of the strings and shaped on its path to the amplifier. By the late 1960s, it became common practice to exploit this dependence to alter the sound of the instrument. The most dramatic innovation was the generation of distortion by increasing the gain, or volume, of the preamplifier in order to clip the electronic signal. This form of distortion generates harmonics, particularly in odd multiples of the input frequency, which are considered pleasing to the ear.
Beginning in the 1960s, the tonal palette of the electric guitar was further modified by introducing an effects box in its signal path. Traditionally built in a small metal chassis with an on/off foot switch, such "stomp boxes" have become as much a part of the instrument for many electric guitarists as the electric guitar itself. Typical effects include vibrato, fuzz, wah-wah and flanging, compression/sustain, delay/echo, and phase shift. Some important innovators of this aspect of the electric guitar include guitarists Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, David Gilmour, Thurston Moore and Daniel Ash, and technicians such as Roger Mayer and Eddie Kramer.
By the 1980s and 1990s, digital effects became capable of replicating the analog effects used in the past. These new digital effects attempted to model the sound produced by analog effects, to varying degrees of quality. Although there are some obvious advantages to digital effects, many guitarists still use analog effects for their real or perceived quality over their digital counterparts.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Electric guitar."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A guitar is a stringed musical instrument played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
Acoustic guitar (larger image)The guitar is descended from the lute, and like the lute has frets on the fingerboard, to fix the positions of the notes, or scale. Guitars usually have 6 strings, although there are variations on this, the most common being a twelve string guitar, the ukelele, and bass guitar, both of which have four strings.
A variety of different tunings are used. The most common by far, known as "standard tuning", is (low to high) E-A-d-g-b-e'. Standard tuning has evolved to provide a good compromise of both simple fingering for many chords, and the ability to play common scales with minimal left hand movement.
Some common alternate tunings
There are also tenor guitars, baritone guitars tuned ADGCEA (or GDGCDG, GDGCEA, GCGCEG, ...) a fifth lower than a normal guitar, treble guitars tuned a fourth higher than a standard (prime) guitar, and contrabass guitars, which are tuned one octave lower than prime guitars.
- E-A-d-f#-b-e which provides the same intervals as for a lute
- D-G-d-g-b-d commonly used for blues or slide guitar
- D-A-d-g-b-e' frequently used in folk music, and by nu metal bands
Broadly speaking, guitars can be divided into 2 categories:
Hybrids of acoustic and electric guitars are also common. There are also more exotic varieties, such as "double-headed" electric guitars, all manner of alternate string arrangements, fretless fingerboards, and such.
- Acoustic guitars: The traditional guitar is not dependent on any external device for amplification, unlike the electric guitar (see below). However, the unamplified guitar is not a loud instrument, that is, it cannot "compete" with other instruments commonly found in bands and orchestras, in terms of sheer audible volume. Most acoustic guitars are available today with built in electronics to enable amplification. There are several subcategories within the acoustic guitar group: classical and flamenco guitars, both of which use nylon and composite strings, and steel string guitars, which includes the flat top, or "folk" guitar, the closely related twelve string guitar, and the arch top guitar. A recent arrival in the acoustic guitar group is the acoustic bass guitar, similar in tuning to the electric bass.
- Classical guitars: These are typically strung with nylon or gut, and amplification is provided by the resonant hollow body. They are normally played in a seated position and used to play classical music. Flamenco guitars are almost equal in construction, have a sharper sound, and are used in flamenco. In Mexico, the popular mariachi band includes a range of guitars, from the tiny requinto to the guitarron, a guitar larger than a cello, which is tuned in the bass register.
- Flat top guitars: Similar to the Classical guitar, but with a narrower, reinforced neck and stronger structural design, to sustain the extra tension of steel strings which produce a louder and brighter tone, the acoustic guitar is a staple in folk, traditional and blues music.
- Resonator, resophonic or dobro guitars: Similar to the flat top guitar, but with a metal resonator mounted in the middle of the top rather than an open sound hole. The purpose of the resonator is to amplify the sound of the guitar; this purpose has been largely superceded by electrical amplification, but the resonator is still played by those desiring its distinctive sound. This type of guitar is more commonly played face up, on the lap of the seated player, and often with a metal or glass slide.
- 12 string guitars usually have steel strings and are widely used in folk music and rock and roll. Rather than having only six strings, the 12-string guitar has pairs, like a mandolin. Each pair of strings is tuned either in unison (the two highest) or an octave apart (the others). They are made both in acoustic and electric forms.
- Archtop guitars are steel string, acoustic instruments which feature a violin-inspired design in which the top and back of the instrument are carved in a curved rather than a flat shape. Lloyd Loar of the Gibson company invented this variation of guitar after designing a style of mandolin of the same type. They were immediately adopted by both jazz and country musicians, but fell out of style when rock and roll grew popular since their design is not capable of extreme amplification.
- Acoustic bass guitars also have steel strings, and match the tuning of the electric bass, which is likewise similar to the traditional double bass viol, the "big bass", a staple of string orchestras and bluegrass bands alike.
- Electric guitars: Electric guitars can have solid, semi-hollow or hollow bodies, and produce little or very low sound without amplification. Electromagnetic pickups convert the vibration of the steel strings into electric signals which are fed to an amplifier through a cable or radio device. The sound is frequently modified by other electronic devices or natural distortion of valves in the amplifier. The electric guitar is used extensively in blues and rock and roll, and was commercialized by Gibson together with Les Paul and independently by Leo Fender. The electric bass is similar in tuning to the traditional double bass viol.
- See also: guitarist, bass guitar, Jazz guitar, electric guitar, Chitarrone, Casio guitar, Air guitar
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Guitar."
Crosswords: Guitar |
| English words defined with "guitar": Andres Segovia ♦ B. B. King, Bandore, banjo, bolero ♦ electric guitar ♦ fingerboard ♦ gittern, guitar pick, guitar player, guitarist ♦ Hawaiian guitar ♦ king ♦ pick, pluck, plunk ♦ reggae, Riley B King ♦ Segovia, steel guitar, strum ♦ thrum, To, twang ♦ uke, ukulele. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "guitar": DUDE WRANGLER ♦ FRETTED-INSTRUMENT MAKER, HAND, FRETTED-INSTRUMENT REPAIRER ♦ Mahalath Maschil ♦ riffage ♦ SANDER-AND-BUFFER, Strings ♦ travis picking. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "guitar": Cithara. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Guitar" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Danish (guitar). |
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Screenplays | Little guitar. Just relaxin (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) They cut a record in here a few days ago, was an old-timey harmony thing with a guitar accom accomp (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen) Would you say sleeping with the guitar in your hands is practicing (Daria; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll) It was guaranteed the treatment would fry the fairy clean out of him, but all it did was make him go bonkers whenever he heard an electric guitar. (Velvet Goldmine; writing credit: James Lyons; Todd Haynes) You can't just buy me a guitar every time you screw up, you know (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith) | |
Lyrics | Like that Spanish guitar (Spanish Guitar; performing artist: Toni Braxton) To some other guitar picker in some other late night place ("My Home's in Alabama"; performing artist: Alabama) There ain’t nothing like a steel guitar (Don't Rock The Jukebox; performing artist: Alan Jackson) Slamming on his guitar (Sk8er Boi; performing artist: Avril Lavigne) He can't blow a note unless a bass and guitar (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy; performing artist: Bette Midler) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Play Guitar with Ulf Goran (1974) Magic Guitar (1968) Fastest Guitar in the West (1967) The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967) | |
Song Titles | Guitar Man (performing artist: Parker Morris Skinner) Spanish Guitar (performing artist: Toni Braxton) | |
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 | A Las Vegas white, male college student, had his leg amputated above the knee when doctors discovered osteogenic sarcoma while he was a teen. He is seen here in a home bedroom setting, playing his guitar. He is presently disease-free and in college. He plays tennis, but is still shy about dating. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Four campgrounds in New Mexico Camps at stations Corral, Thorn, Guitar, and Quail Triangulation party of Wilbur Porter. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Where softly sighs of love the light guitar - a Visayan-Filipino serenade. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Josh White (left) holding guitar and Josh White, Jr. (right) holding microphone. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The guitar lesson. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mexican boy playing guitar in room of corral. Robstown, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Migrant boy playing the guitar on pallet while camped near Prague, Oklahoma. Lincoln County, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Alan Lomax playing guitar on stage at the Mountain Music Festival, Asheville, N.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pedro Zenungia playing the guitar with his daughter Zenovia, San Antonio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Two Afro-American men, outside of stable, with Kazoos in their mouths, one of them seated on haybale and playing guitar, the other playing homemade string instrument, Washington, D.C. or New York City. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Black guitar 1" by Matt Wheeler Commentary: "My black washburn acoustic guitar against a white wall." | "Guitar player" by Thomash Commentary: "Close up of a guitar player strumming, from a series taken for a flamenco guitar album." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | A very 1960's style folk guitar strumming pattern. | | Typical country tune from the southern U.S. featuring a lap-steal guitar. |
| Strumming acoustic guitar and percussion playing in a major key area. | | A finger-picking acoustic guitar piece using lots of counterpoint. |
| Heavy reverb percussion with simple guitar melody. | | A slow minor piece for guitar played in a rubato manner. |
| Smooth jazz genre piece in a medium tempo with muted guitar and strings. | | A typical folk guitar playing style characteristic of the 1960's. |
| Lap steel guitar glissando chords creating a stereotypical Hawaiian sound. | | Arpeggiated guitar with solo guitar and light strings in background. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | These three in the evening, harmonica and fiddle and guitar. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Health | Impaired movements of the fingers may appear as though the patient is playing an invisible guitar or piano. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Guitar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Guitar" is used about 2,702 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2,702 | 3,400 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "guitar" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Guitar | Last name | 100 | 84,232 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Guitar Center Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "guitar": acoustic guitar ♦ bass guitar ♦ electric guitar ♦ guitar accompaniment ♦ guitar pick ♦ guitar player ♦ hawaiian guitar ♦ small guitar ♦ steel guitar. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "guitar": guitar-band, guitar-based, guitar-basher, guitar-bashing, guitar-building, guitar-buying, guitar-crazy, guitar-dominated, guitar-drenched, guitar-drive, guitar-driven, guitar-fakers, guitar-fascinated, guitar-fired, guitar-flailing, guitar-fuelled, guitar-gauge, guitar-induced, guitar-laced, guitar-laden, guitar-licks, guitar-mad, guitar-maker, guitar-makers, guitar-nasty, guitar-orientated, guitar-oriented, guitar-played-as-bacon-slicer, guitar-player, guitar-players, guitar-playing, guitar-pop, guitar-related, guitar-shredding, guitar-slashing, guitar-smashing, guitar-strummed, guitar-strummers, guitar-strumming, guitar-to-midi, guitar-turned-bass, guitar-wise. | |
Ending with "guitar": basic-guitar, beatbox-plus-guitar, ex-guitar, fuzz-guitar, non-guitar, rhythm-guitar, screech-guitar, three-guitar. | |
Containing "guitar": elongated-labial-sticker-on-guitar-strap. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
guitar tablature | 28,734 | guitar sale | 784 |
guitar | 14,620 | free guitar sheet music | 781 |
guitar chord | 6,635 | learn to play guitar | 717 |
guitar center | 3,448 | guitar pro | 715 |
electric guitar | 2,750 | guitar tuning | 706 |
bass guitar | 2,498 | guitar chord chart | 681 |
guitar lesson | 2,466 | guitar scale | 674 |
guitar music | 2,341 | classical guitar | 629 |
guitar tab universe | 1,824 | free guitar lesson | 610 |
free guitar tab | 1,798 | esp guitar | 588 |
acoustic guitar | 1,760 | guitar note | 557 |
gibson guitar | 1,704 | jackson guitar | 556 |
guitar sheet music | 1,460 | used guitar | 551 |
guitar tuner | 1,348 | guitar string | 545 |
play guitar | 1,308 | ibanez guitar | 537 |
martin guitar | 1,237 | vintage guitar | 509 |
christian guitar tab | 1,214 | discount guitar | 496 |
fender guitar | 1,173 | metallica guitar tab | 486 |
taylor guitar | 1,038 | ovation guitar | 468 |
guitar part | 851 | yamaha guitar | 461 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "guitar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kitarë. (various references) | |
Arabic | قيثارة (lyre), غيتار. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | китара. (various references) | |
Chinese | 吉他 . (various references) | |
Czech | kytara. (various references) | |
Danish | guitar. (various references) | |
Dutch | gitaar. (various references) | |
Esperanto | gitaro. (various references) | |
Farsi | گیتارزدن , گیتار, عودشش سیمه . (various references) | |
Finnish | kitara. (various references) | |
French | guitare (common guitarfish, guitarfish). (various references) | |
German | Gitarre. (various references) | |
Greek | κιθάρα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | גיטרה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | gitár. (various references) | |
Indonesian | gitar. (various references) | |
Italian | chitarra. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | キロ連量 (10^9, gear, gear change, gearshift, giga-, gigaton, January 15., king, King Dome, King Holiday, king salmon, kingmaker, King's English, king-size, kinky boots, kinky look, Kiwanis Club, ream weight, weight of 1000 sheets of paper). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ギター . (various references) | |
Korean | 기타. (various references) | |
Manx | gitar. (various references) | |
Norwegian | gitar. (various references) | |
Papago | gital. (various references) | |
Papiamen | guitara, kitara. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uitargay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | guitarra. (various references) | |
Romanian | ghitarã. (various references) | |
Romany | chalkìya. (various references) | |
Russian | гитара (bracket). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gitara. (various references) | |
Spanish | guitarra (bracket, common guitarfish, guitarfish, intermediate gear bracket, ling, quadrant). (various references) | |
Swedish | gitarr. (various references) | |
Thai | กีตาร์. (various references) | |
Turkish | gitar, gítar. (various references) | |
Turkmen | gitar. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гітара. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | kithara. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cithara, citharae, citharam, cithararum, citharas, citharis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "guitar": guitarfish, guitarfishes, guitarist, guitarists, guitars. (additional references) | |
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"Guitar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gaiar, gaita, Gaitan, Gatinara, Giltar, gita, gitar, gitarr, Goftar, Gotari, guagara, guatar, guater, Guetary, Guetteur, guiac, Guichard, Guigal, Guimard, guitan, guitarr, Guitart, guite, guito, Guitry, Gumista, guta, gutiar, gutier, guttair, Guyatt, quitar, Ugta. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "guitar" (pronounced gutÄ"r) |
| 3 | -t Ä" r | star, superstar, tar. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: tragi. | |
-2 letters: airt, gait, gaur, girt, grat, grit, guar, ragi, ruga, trig, trug. | |
-3 letters: air, ait, art, gar, gat, git, gut, rag, rat, ria, rig, rug, rut, tag, tar, tau, tug, tui, uta. | |
-4 letters: ag, ai, ar, at, it, ta, ti, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: guitars. | |
+2 letters: antidrug, autogiro, curating, figurant, figurate, fruitage, gratuity, ligature, maturing, sastrugi, uprating, zastrugi, ziggurat. | |
+3 letters: authoring, autogiros, capturing, ciguatera, curtilage, featuring, figurants, frugality, fruitages, fumigator, furcating, garniture, garrulity, gauntries, granulite, graticule, gratitude, guitarist, haughtier, ligatured, ligatures, naughtier, outdaring, outracing, outraging, outrating, outraving, pasturing, purgation, purgative, ragouting, rapturing, ruinating, signature, sugariest, surtaxing, tabouring, traducing, trialogue, truanting, ultrahigh, uncrating, updarting, upstaring, uptearing, urinating, vulgarity, ziggurats. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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