hot
/hɑt/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.16 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
adj
Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
adj
Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
adj
Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
adj
Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
American usage
adj
Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
Informal
adj
Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
Example Sentences
- "He forgot that the frying pan was hot and burned his hand."
- "It is too hot to be outside."
- "It is hotter in summer than in winter."
- "It is roasting hot in here. Crack a window, please."
- "There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…]."
- "“Everybody is interested in extremes – the hottest, the wettest, the windiest – so creating a database of professionally verified records is useful in that fact alone,” says Randall Cerveny from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *keHy- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-dʰh₁eti Proto-Indo-European *-dʰeti Proto-Indo-European *kéHidʰeti Proto-Indo-European *kéHidos Proto-Germanic *haitaz Proto-West Germanic *hait Old English hāt Middle English hot English hot From Middle English hot, hoot, from Old English hāt (“hot”), from Proto-West Germanic *hait, from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“to heat; to become hot”). Cognates Cognate with Yola hoat, hoate, hote (“hot”), West Frisian hjit, hyt (“hot”), Bavarian hoaß (“hot”), Central Franconian heeß (“hot”), Dutch heet (“hot”), German heiss, heiß, heyß (“hot”), Vilamovian haas, haes, hȧś, hǡs (“hot”), Yiddish הייס (heys, “hot”), Danish hed (“hot”), Faroese and Icelandic heitur (“hot”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish het (“hot”); also Lithuanian kaitra (“heat”). Related to heat. Superseded non-native Middle English chaud, from Old French chaut (“hot”); and early Modern English calent, from Latin calēns (“hot”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: hot, hāt, *hait, *haitaz, *keHy-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hɑt/
- British English: /hɒt/
Usage
- American usage
- Informal
- Colloquial
- Slang
- Countable
- Uncountable
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
a bit hot
Ainsworth Hot Springs
Alabama hot pocket
a little pot is soon hot
as hot as hell
hot as hell
baking hot
blow hot air