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Is billet a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word billet is a Scrabble US word. The word billet is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is billet a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word billet is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

B3I1L1L1E1T1

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Yes. The word billet is a Words With Friends word. The word billet is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

BILLET,

5-letter words (2 found)

BLITE,LIBEL,

4-letter words (13 found)

BELL,BELT,BILE,BILL,BITE,BLET,BLIT,LILT,LITE,TEIL,TELL,TILE,TILL,

3-letter words (14 found)

BEL,BET,BIT,ELL,ELT,ILL,LEI,LET,LIB,LIE,LIT,TEL,TIE,TIL,

2-letter words (8 found)

BE,BI,EL,ET,IT,LI,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 39 words from billet according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of billet

billet

Pronunciation

  • (UK, General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɪlɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɪlɪt

Etymology 1

From Middle English bylet, from Anglo-Norman billette (“list, schedule”), from bille +‎ -ette, from Latin bulla (“document”).

Noun

billet (plural billets)

  1. A short informal letter.
  2. A written order to quarter soldiers.
  3. A sealed ticket for a draw or lottery.
Derived terms
  • billet reading
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle French billette (“schedule”), from bullette, diminutive form of bulle (“document”), from Medieval Latin bulla, hence cognate with etymology 1 above.

Noun

billet (plural billets)

  1. A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
  2. Temporary lodgings in a private residence, such as is organised for members of a visiting sports team.
  3. An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
  4. (figurative) Berth; position.

Verb

billet (third-person singular simple present billets, present participle billeting or billetting or billiting, simple past and past participle billeted or billetted)

  1. (transitive, of a householder etc.) To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.
  2. (intransitive, of a soldier) To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
  3. (transitive) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English billet, bylet, belet, billette, from Old French billette, from bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“tree”)).

Noun

billet (plural billets)

  1. (metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal.
  2. A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
  3. A short cutting of sugar cane produced by a harvester or used for planting.
  4. (heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
  5. (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
  6. (saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
  7. A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.
Derived terms
  • billet barge
Related terms
  • billon
Translations

Etymology 4

Noun

billet (plural billets)

  1. Alternative form of billard (“coalfish”)

References

  • “billet”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

  • LIBlet, Litbel

Danish

Etymology

From French billet.

Noun

billet c (singular definite billetten, plural indefinite billetter)

  1. ticket (admission to entertainment, pass for transportation)

Inflection

Further reading

  • “billet” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Old French billette, from Latin bulla. See French boulette.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bi.jɛ/

Noun

billet m (plural billets)

  1. ticket
  2. note, a brief message
  3. (short for billet de banque) banknote

Derived terms

  • distributeur de billets

Related terms

  • billet de banque (bank note)
  • billet-doux
  • billette
  • billetterie
  • billetiste

Descendants

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org