About The Word “Waste”

Everything you wanted to know about the word “waste”, including spelling, parts of speech, “waste” meaning and origins, anagrams, rhyming words, encodings, crossword clues and much more!

How to spell “waste”

Waste is spelled w-a-s-t-e and has 5 letters.


How many vowels and consonants in “waste”

The word “waste” has 3 consonants and 2 vowels.


How many syllables in “waste”?

There is 1 syllable in the word “waste”.


What type of word is “waste”?

The word "waste" can be a noun, adjective and verb.

Meaning of the word “waste”

Waste refers to the act of using or expending resources carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose, as well as the material or substance that is unusable, unwanted, or discarded as a result of human activities or natural processes. It can also signify a gradual loss or decline of something, such as energy or bodily tissue, due to inefficient use or consumption.

Origin of the word “waste”

The word 'waste' originated from the Latin term 'vastus,' which means desolate or unoccupied. It later evolved in Old French as 'waste' and was adopted into Middle English, influenced by its Germanic cognate 'wüst.'
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Synonyms for “waste”

Other words for “waste” include discard, squander, misuse, expend, deplete, consume, dissipate, throw away, trash.

Word families for “waste”

Wastage, wastages, wasted, wasteful, wastefully, wastefulness, waster, wasters, wastes, wasting

Common misspellings of “waste”

Wahste

Similar words to “waste”

Aster, caste, haste, paste, taste, waist, waisted, wasnt, wast, wastage, wasted, waster, wasters, wastes, astel, astre, awaste, wabster, waister, warse, warst, warstle, wase, wasel, wastern, wastier, wastine, wastrie, wasts, whase, wiste, wrast, wrastle, weste, wastrel, baste, water

Scrambled words derived from “waste”

Seawt, estaw, stwae, tseaw, wtaes, awste, wesat, twase, wtsae, watse, swate, staew, waest, easwt, tewas, taews, setwa, astwe, stewa, awets, aeswt, ewtas, ewsat, swaet, teaws

Crossword clues for “waste”

Squander energy with a twist (5).

Anagrams of “waste”

Awest, etwas, sweat, tawse, twaes

Fun facts about the word “waste”

The word “waste” has a Scrabble score of 8 and reads etsaw in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “waste”

Whiskey Alpha Sierra Tango Echo

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“waste” spelled in Morse code

.-- .- ... - . (dot dash dash dot dash dot dot dot dash dot).

Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their new invention, the telegraph, which required a simple way to transmit text messages across long distances.

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ASCII spelling of “waste”

Lowercase word: 119 97 115 116 101

Uppercase word: 87 65 83 84 69

ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used by computers and electronic devices to understand and represent text.

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Binary spelling of “waste”

Lowercase word: 1110111 1100001 1110011 1110100 1100101

Uppercase word: 1010111 1000001 1010011 1010100 1000101

Binary encoding is a system that computers and digital devices use to represent and process information. It's based on binary numbers, which are composed only of zeros and ones, known as bits.

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Hexadecimal value of “waste”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x77 0x61 0x73 0x74 0x65

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x57 0x41 0x53 0x54 0x45

Hexadecimal is a number system commonly used in computing as a human-friendly way of representing binary data. Unlike the decimal system, which is base 10 and uses digits from 0 to 9, the hexadecimal system is base 16, using digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F to represent the values 10 to 15.

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Decimal spelling of “waste”

Lowercase: 119 97 115 116 101

Upprcase: 87 65 83 84 69

The decimal system, also known as base-10, is the numerical system most commonly used by people in everyday life. It's called "base-10" because it uses ten digits: 0 through 9. Each position in a decimal number represents a power of 10.

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Octal value of “waste”

Lowercase: 167 141 163 164 145

Upprcase: 127 101 123 124 105

Octal is a base-8 number system used in digital computing. Unlike the decimal system which uses ten digits (0-9), and the binary system which uses two (0 and 1), the octal system uses eight digits: 0 through 7. Each position in an octal number represents a power of 8.

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