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Is betty a Scrabble word?

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

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Is betty a Scrabble UK word?

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

B3E1T1T1Y4

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5-letter words (1 found)

BETTY,

4-letter words (4 found)

BYTE,TYTE,YBET,YETT,

3-letter words (6 found)

BET,BEY,BYE,TET,TYE,YET,

2-letter words (5 found)

BE,BY,ET,TE,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 17 words from betty according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of betty

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Definitions and meaning of betty

betty

Alternative forms

  • (bar used by thieves to open doors): bettee
  • Betty

Etymology

From Betty (nickname for “Elizabeth”). In thieves’ cant a tool for wrenching locked doors is also called a Bess (from “Elizabeth”) or a Jenny. The “attractive woman” sense may relate to the character Betty Rubble in the cartoon The Flintstones.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɛti/
  • Rhymes: -ɛti

Noun

betty (plural betties)

  1. (slang) A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open; a jimmy. [from 17th century]
  2. (slang) A picklock, skeleton key; a tool for opening locks. [from 18th century]
  3. (archaic, derogatory) A man who performs tasks that traditionally belong to a woman; (originally) an effeminate or gay man. [from 17th century]
  4. (US, archaic) A pear-shaped bottle covered with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; a Florence flask. [17th to 19th century]
  5. A baked dessert made with alternating layers of sweetened fruit and buttered bread crumbs. [from 19th century]
  6. (slang, slightly pejorative) An attractive woman; a babe. [from 20th century]

Synonyms

  • (attractive woman): see Thesaurus:beautiful woman
  • (man who performs a woman's tasks): cot-betty, cot-quean, henhussy, molly

Hyponyms

  • (man who performs a woman's tasks): househusband

Verb

betty (third-person singular simple present betties, present participle bettying, simple past and past participle bettied)

  1. To pick a lock, to open with a betty. [from 19th century]
  2. (archaic) To be overly attentive to someone or something.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:betty.

References

  • 1989, Joan Hughes, Australian Words and Their Origins (page 39)

Further reading

  • (dessert): Meta Given's Encyclopedia of Modern Cooking, J.G. Ferguson and Associates, Chicago, 1952, pages 726-727.

Anagrams

  • TBYTE, tbyte

Source: wiktionary.org