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Is barbet a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word barbet is a Scrabble US word. The word barbet is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is barbet a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word barbet is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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6-letter words (2 found)

BARBET,RABBET,

5-letter words (2 found)

BARBE,TABER,

4-letter words (16 found)

ABBE,ABER,ABET,ARET,BABE,BARB,BARE,BATE,BEAR,BEAT,BETA,BRAE,BRAT,RATE,TARE,TEAR,

3-letter words (22 found)

ABB,ARB,ARE,ART,ATE,BAE,BAR,BAT,BET,BRA,EAR,EAT,EBB,ERA,ETA,RAT,REB,RET,TAB,TAE,TAR,TEA,

2-letter words (12 found)

AB,AE,AR,AT,BA,BE,EA,ER,ET,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 55 words from barbet according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of barbet

barbet

Etymology

From French barbe (“beard; long hair of certain animals”).

Noun

barbet (plural barbets)

  1. Any of numerous arboreal birds of the families Capitonidae, Lybiidae, and Megalaimidae, within the order Piciformes.
  2. A dog of a small-bodied breed with long curly hair.
  3. Any larva of an indefinite number of species of the beetle family Coccinellidae, that is covered in waxy threads and feeds on aphids and similar small prey.
    • 1839 John Obadiah Westwood: An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects
      Réaumur, in his account of the insects which attack the aphides, has described the larva of a Coleopterous insect, which he names "l'hérisson blanc", or "le barbet blanc", of small size, and remarkable for having the body clothed with small bundles of oblong, white, cotton-like "touffes" ... I have met with this larva ... it evidently ... belongs to some species of the genus Scymnus.

Synonyms

  • (dog) French Water Dog

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Irish: bairbéad

Translations

See also

  • Barbet (dog) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Lybiidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (African barbet)
  • Capitonidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (American barbet)
  • Megalaimidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (Asian barbet)
  • Semnornithidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (Toucan-barbet)

Anagrams

  • rabbet

French

Etymology

From barbe (“beard; long hair of certain animals”) +‎ -et.

Pronunciation

Noun

barbet m (plural barbets)

  1. barbet (all senses)

Descendants

  • → English: barbet
    • → Irish: bairbéad
  • → Romanian: barbet

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

barbet m (plural barbets)

  1. (Jersey) barb (in fishhook)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French barbet.

Noun

barbet m (plural barbeți)

  1. barbet (dog)

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org