jot
Plural: jots
Noun
- a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note
- a slight but appreciable amount
- The smallest letter or stroke of any writing; an iota.
- A small, or the smallest, amount of a thing; a bit, a whit.
- A small, or the smallest, amount of a thing; a bit, a whit.
- An instant, a moment.
- A brief and hurriedly written note.
- A jerk, a jolt.
Verb
Verb Forms: jotted, jotting, jots
- To write or mark down quickly.
- write briefly or hurriedly; write a short note of
- Chiefly followed by down: to write (something) quickly; to make a brief note of (something).
- To jerk or jolt (something); to jog.
Examples
- He didn’t care a jot for his work.
- He quickly began to JOT down possible words, racing against the Words With Friends clock.
- Tell me your order so I can jot it down.
Origin / Etymology
The noun is borrowed from Latin iōta (“the letter iota of the Ancient Greek alphabet”), from Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta, “ninth letter of the Ancient Greek alphabet; (figurative) very small part of writing, jot”), from Phoenician 𐤉 (y, “tenth letter of the Phoenician abjad, yodh”). Doublet of iota and yodh.
Sense 3 (“brief and hurriedly written note”) is derived from the verb.
The verb is probably borrowed from Scots jot, from English jot (noun): see above.
Synonyms
hint, jot down, jotting, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch, New York minute, New York second, ace, atom, aught, bat of an eye, bissel, bit, blink of an eye, bump, crack, crumb, dab, damn, dash, diddly, dot, drop, dusting, eyeblink, flash, fleck, flip, flyspeck, glimpse, glint, grain, half a mo, halfpennyworth, inch, instant, iota, jiff, jiffy, jot, lick, minute, mo, modicum, molecule, moment, morceau, morsel, mote, no time, ooch, ounce, particle, pennyworth, piece, scantling, scent, scintilla, scooch, scrap, scruple, sec, second, semblance, shred, skerrick, skoosh, skosh, sliver, smattering, smidge, smidgen, smidget, smidgy, smitch, smithereen, soupçon, span, spark, spatter, speckle, split-second, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, spurt, stound, strain, tad, tick, tidbit, tidge, tittle, toddick, trace, trice, trifle, tuppence worth, twink, twinkle, twinkling, whiff, while, whit
Scrabble Score: 10
jot: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordjot: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
jot: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary