Scrabble & Words with friends points
- pest is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 6
- pest is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 6
- pest is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 7
Definition of pest
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate (noun)
Synonyms
- pestilence
- plague
- a persistently annoying person (noun)
Synonyms
- blighter
- cuss
- gadfly
- pesterer
- a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal (noun)
Synonyms
- pestilence
- pestis
- plague
- any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc. (noun)
Examples
- he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests
- many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides
See definition of pest in Merriam Webster