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Yes. The word babbitt is a Scrabble US word. The word babbitt is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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7-letter words (1 found)

BABBITT,

4-letter words (6 found)

BAIT,BATT,BIBB,BITT,TABI,TAIT,

3-letter words (11 found)

ABB,AIT,ATT,BAT,BIB,BIT,ITA,TAB,TAI,TAT,TIT,

2-letter words (8 found)

AB,AI,AT,BA,BI,IT,TA,TI,

You can make 26 words from babbitt according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of babbitt

babbitt

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈbæbɪt/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈbæbət/
  • Rhymes: -æbɪt
  • Hyphenation: bab‧bitt

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Babbitt, the surname of the American inventor Isaac Babbitt (1799–1862) who invented the alloy.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

babbitt (countable and uncountable, plural babbitts)

  1. Short for babbitt metal, Babbitt metal (“a soft white alloy of variable composition (for example, nine parts of tin to one of copper, or fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction”).
    Synonyms: (rare) Babbitt's metal, bearing metal
Alternative forms
  • babbit (nonstandard)
  • Babbitt (dated)
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Verb

babbitt (third-person singular simple present babbitts, present participle babbitting, simple past and past participle babbitted)

  1. (transitive) To line (something) with babbitt metal to reduce friction.
Alternative forms
  • babbit (nonstandard)
Translations

Etymology 2

From Babbitt, the surname of George Babbitt, the title character of the novel Babbitt (1922) by the American author Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951). The word was also popularized by the George (1898–1937) and Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) song “The Babbitt and the Bromide”, first featured in the 1927 musical Funny Face and later in the film Ziegfeld Follies (1945).

Noun

babbitt (plural babbitts)

  1. (US, dated) Alternative letter-case form of Babbitt (“a person who subscribes complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals”)
    • 2002 Tamkang review, Volume 33, Tamkang College of Arts and Sciences, p.158
      [...] a "babbitt" is a person full of self-confident bluster who is nevertheless a narrowminded philistine and a hypocrite.]
Derived terms
  • babbittry, Babbittry
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References

Further reading

  • babbitt (alloy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Babbitt (novel) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “babbitt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Source: wiktionary.org