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Is brittle a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word brittle is a Scrabble US word. The word brittle is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

B3R1I1T1T1L1E1

Is brittle a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word brittle is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

B3R1I1T1T1L1E1

Is brittle a Words With Friends word?

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

B4R1I1T1T1L2E1

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7-letter words (3 found)

BLITTER,BRITTLE,TRIBLET,

6-letter words (5 found)

BITTER,LITTER,RIBLET,TILTER,TITLER,

5-letter words (18 found)

BIRLE,BITER,BITTE,BLERT,BLITE,BRITT,LIBER,LITER,LITRE,REBIT,RELIT,TETRI,TILER,TITER,TITLE,TITRE,TRIBE,TRITE,

4-letter words (29 found)

BELT,BIER,BILE,BIRL,BITE,BITT,BLET,BLIT,BREI,BRIE,BRIT,LEIR,LIER,LIRE,LITE,RIEL,RILE,RITE,RITT,TEIL,TELT,TIER,TILE,TILT,TIRE,TIRL,TITE,TRET,TRIE,

3-letter words (20 found)

BEL,BET,BIT,ELT,IRE,LEI,LET,LIB,LIE,LIT,REB,REI,RET,RIB,RIT,TEL,TET,TIE,TIL,TIT,

2-letter words (10 found)

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

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 86 words from brittle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of brittle

brittle

Etymology

From Middle English britel, brutel, brotel (“brittle”), from Old English *brytel, *bryttol (“brittle, fragile”, literally “prone to or tending to break”); equivalent to brit +‎ -le.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɹɪtl̩/
  • Rhymes: -ɪtəl

Adjective

brittle (comparative brittler or more brittle, superlative brittlest or most brittle)

  1. Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact.
    Cast iron is much more brittle than forged iron.
    A diamond is hard but brittle.
  2. Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
    Shortbread is my favorite cold pastry, yet being so brittle it crumbles easily, and a lot goes to waste.
  3. (archaeology) Said of rocks and minerals with a conchoidal fracture; capable of being knapped or flaked.
  4. Emotionally fragile, easily offended.
    What a brittle personality! A little misunderstanding and he's an emotional wreck.
  5. (engineering, computing, of a system) Poorly error- or fault-tolerant; having little in the way of redundancy or defense in depth; susceptible to catastrophic failure in the event of a relatively-minor malfunction or deviance.
  6. (informal, proscribed) Diabetes that is characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.

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Translations

Noun

brittle (usually uncountable, plural brittles)

  1. A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.
  2. (by extension) Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc.

Synonyms

  • brickle

Derived terms

  • peanut brittle

Translations

Verb

brittle (third-person singular simple present brittles, present participle brittling, simple past and past participle brittled)

  1. (intransitive) To become brittle.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To gut.

See also

  • break, breakable
  • short (adjective)

References

  • “brittle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • blitter, triblet

Source: wiktionary.org