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

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

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7-letter words (2 found)

BEETING,BEIGNET,

6-letter words (3 found)

BEIGNE,BETING,TEEING,

5-letter words (11 found)

BEGET,BEGIN,BEIGE,BEING,BENET,BINGE,EIGNE,GENET,GENIE,TENGE,TINGE,

4-letter words (28 found)

BEEN,BEET,BEIN,BENE,BENI,BENT,BETE,BIEN,BINE,BING,BINT,BITE,EINE,ETEN,GEIT,GENE,GENT,GIBE,GIEN,GITE,NETE,NITE,TEEN,TEIN,TENE,TIGE,TINE,TING,

3-letter words (31 found)

BEE,BEG,BEN,BET,BIG,BIN,BIT,EEN,ENE,ENG,GEE,GEN,GET,GIB,GIE,GIN,GIT,ING,NEB,NEE,NEG,NET,NIB,NIE,NIT,TEE,TEG,TEN,TIE,TIG,TIN,

2-letter words (11 found)

BE,BI,EE,EN,ET,GI,IN,IT,NE,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 87 words from beignet according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of beignet

beignet

Etymology

Borrowed from French beignet, ultimately of Frankish origin.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɛn.jeɪ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /bɛnˈjeɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

beignet (plural beignets)

  1. (UK) A fritter (with a fruit or vegetable filling).
  2. (US) A Louisiana-style fried doughnut or fritter covered in powdered sugar.
    We sat in a New Orleans cafe eating beignets and sipping cappuccinos.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

From French beignet.

Pronunciation

Noun

beignet c (plural beignets, diminutive beignetje n)

  1. a beignet

Derived terms

  • appelbeignet

Descendants

  • → Sranan Tongo: benye

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from French beignet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbenjeː/, [ˈbe̞nje̞ː]

Noun

beignet

  1. beignet

Declension

Further reading

  • “beignet”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French bignet, from Old French bignet (“fried dough enveloping a food substance”), a diminutive of bigne, bugne, buyne (“lump, swelling”), from Frankish *bungjo (“lump, bump, swelling”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Old High German bungo (“swelling, tuber”) (German Bunge), Dutch bonk (“lump, clump”), Gaulish *bunia, Scottish Gaelic bonnach (“cake, biscuit”). Also related to bun, bunk, bunch, bunion.

Equivalent to beigne +‎ -et.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɛ.ɲɛ/, /be.ɲɛ/

Noun

beignet m (plural beignets)

  1. beignet (fritter filled with fruit etc)
  2. doughnut

Descendants

  • → Dutch: beignet
  • → English: beignet
  • → Esperanto: benjeto
  • → Italian: bignè

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org