pot
A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
Noun 4 meanings
A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
Verb 4 meanings
To put (something) into a pot.
“to pot a plant”
To preserve by bottling or canning.
To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
Etymology
From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”).
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POT at a glance
POT has 3 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (P 3 + O 1 + T 1) and 6 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,577 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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