gamut
Plural: gamuts
Noun
- The entire range or scope of something.
- a complete extent or range:
- "a face that expressed a gamut of emotions"
- the entire scale of musical notes
- A (normally) complete range.
- All the notes in a musical scale.
- All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.
Examples
- His Scrabble vocabulary covered the entire GAMUT from "AA" to "ZYMOLOGY."
Origin / Etymology
1520s, original sense “lowest note of musical scale”, contraction of Medieval Latin gamma ut, from gamma (“Greek letter, corresponding to the musical note G”) + ut (“first solfège syllable, now replaced by do”). In modern terms, “G do” – the first note of the G scale. Meaning later extended to mean all the notes of a scale, and then more generally any complete range.
Scrabble Score: 8
gamut: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgamut: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gamut: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
gamut: valid Words With Friends Word