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Yes. The word banquet is a Scrabble US word. The word banquet is worth 18 points in Scrabble:

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7-letter words (1 found)

BANQUET,

6-letter words (2 found)

BUTANE,EQUANT,

5-letter words (10 found)

ABUNE,BANTU,BEAUT,QUANT,QUATE,QUEAN,QUENA,TABUN,TAUBE,TUBAE,

4-letter words (29 found)

ABET,ABUT,ANTE,AUNE,AUNT,BANE,BANT,BATE,BEAN,BEAT,BEAU,BENT,BETA,BUAT,BUNA,BUNT,BUTE,ETNA,NABE,NEAT,QUAT,TABU,TANE,TUAN,TUBA,TUBE,TUNA,TUNE,UNBE,

3-letter words (34 found)

ANE,ANT,ATE,AUE,BAE,BAN,BAT,BEN,BET,BUN,BUT,EAN,EAT,EAU,ETA,NAB,NAE,NAT,NEB,NET,NUB,NUT,QAT,QUA,TAB,TAE,TAN,TAU,TEA,TEN,TUB,TUN,UTA,UTE,

2-letter words (16 found)

AB,AE,AN,AT,BA,BE,EA,EN,ET,NA,NE,NU,TA,TE,UN,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 93 words from banquet according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of banquet

banquet

Alternative forms

  • bankette (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English banket, from Middle French banquet, from Italian banchetto (“light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench”, literally “a small bench”), from banco (“bench”), from Lombardic *bank, *panch (“bench”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old High German bank, banch (“bench”), Old English benċ (“bench”). More at bank, bench.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: băngˈ kwĭt, bănˈ kwĭt; IPA(key): /ˈ bæŋkwɪt/, /ˈ bænkwɪt/
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈ bæŋkɪt/

Noun

banquet (plural banquets)

  1. A large celebratory meal; a feast.
    Synonym: reception
  2. A ceremonial dinner party for many people.
  3. (archaic) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Scottish Gaelic: bangaid (Canadian)

Translations

Verb

banquet (third-person singular simple present banquets, present participle banqueting or banquetting, simple past and past participle banqueted or banquetted)

  1. (intransitive) To participate in a banquet; to feast.
  2. (obsolete) To have dessert after a feast.
    • 1580, George Cavendish, quoted by John Stow (ed.), The Annales of England, Faithfully collected out of the most autenticall Authors, Records, and other Monuments of Antiquitie, 1600 edition, “Henry the eight.,” p. 907,[3]
      Then was the banquetting chamber in the tilt yard at Greenewich, to the which place these strangers were conducted by the noblest personages in the court, where they did both sup and banquet.
  3. (transitive) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
    • 1800, Frederick Schiller, The Piccolomini, or the First Part of Wallenstein, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Longman & Rees, Act I, scene i, p. 2,[4]
      Just in time to banquet
      The illustrious company assembled there.

Derived terms

  • banqueter
  • banqueting

Translations

References

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [bəŋˈkɛt]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [bəŋˈkət]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [baŋˈket]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French banquet.

Noun

banquet m (plural banquets)

  1. banquet (celebratory meal)

Etymology 2

From banc +‎ -et.

Noun

banquet m (plural banquets)

  1. small bench

Further reading

  • “banquet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “banquet”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “banquet” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “banquet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French banquet, from Italian banchetto (“light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench”, literally “a small bench”), from banco (“bench”), from Lombardic bank (“bench”) / Lombardic panch (“bench”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old High German bank, banch (“bench”), Old English benc (“bench”). Compare Old French banquet, which only meant "small bench", from the same Proto-Germanic source.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɑ̃.kɛ/

Noun

banquet m (plural banquets)

  1. banquet

Descendants

Further reading

  • “banquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Source: wiktionary.org