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Is closet a Scrabble word?

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

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Is closet a Scrabble UK word?

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

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6-letter words (3 found)

CLOSET,CLOTES,TELCOS,

5-letter words (17 found)

CELTS,CLOSE,CLOTE,CLOTS,COLES,COLTS,COSET,COSTE,COTES,ESCOT,ESTOC,LOTES,SOCLE,STOLE,TELCO,TELOS,TOLES,

4-letter words (31 found)

CELS,CELT,CLOT,COLE,COLS,COLT,COSE,COST,COTE,COTS,ECOS,ELTS,LEST,LETS,LOSE,LOST,LOTE,LOTS,OLES,SCOT,SECO,SECT,SLOE,SLOT,SOLE,TECS,TELS,TOCS,TOES,TOLE,TOSE,

3-letter words (26 found)

CEL,COL,COS,COT,ECO,ELS,ELT,EST,LES,LET,LOS,LOT,OES,OLE,OSE,SEC,SEL,SET,SOC,SOL,SOT,TEC,TEL,TES,TOC,TOE,

2-letter words (10 found)

EL,ES,ET,LO,OE,OS,SO,ST,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 88 words from closet according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of closet

closet

English

Etymology

From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos (“private space”) +‎ -et (diminutive suffix), from Latin clausum. Equivalent to close +‎ -et, but generally applied in French solely to small open-air enclosures.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈklɒzɪt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈklɑzɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɒzɪt

Noun

closet (plural closets)

  1. A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
    • 1799 May 17, Jane Austen, letter:
      A Closet full of shelves... it... should therefore be called a Cupboard rather than a Closet.
  2. (obsolete) Any private space, (particularly) bowers in the open air.
  3. (now rare) Any private or inner room, (particularly):
    1. (obsolete) A private room used by women to groom and dress themselves.
    2. (archaic) A private room used for prayer or other devotions.
    3. (figuratively, archaic) A place of (usually, fanciful) contemplation and theorizing.
    4. (archaic) The private residence or private council chamber of a monarch.
  4. (obsolete) A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.
    • c. 1390, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, §I, 934 ff.:
      Chaplayneȝ to þe chapeles chosen þe gate... / Þe lorde loutes þerto, & þe lady als, / In-to a comly closet coyntly ho entreȝ.
  5. A private cabinet, (particularly):
    1. (obsolete) One used to store valuables.
    2. (archaic) One used to store curiosities.
    3. (figuratively) A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.
      The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager.
      He's so far in the closet, he can see Narnia.
    4. (slang, uncommon) Clipping of closet case.
  6. (now chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Any small room or side room.
    1. (US, Philippines) One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
    2. (obsolete) Clipping of closet of ease, (later, UK) clipping of water closet: a room containing a toilet.
  7. (heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
    Coordinate term: barrulet
  8. (Scotland, obsolete) A sewer.
  9. A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
    1. The state of having one's sexual orientation a secret.
  10. (archaic) A compendium of knowledge, possibly from closet as a room?

Synonyms

  • (place of fanciful theorization): armchair
  • (furniture or shelving used for storage): See cabinet
  • (room with a toilet): See Thesaurus:bathroom

Hyponyms

  • (small closet with built-in lock): locker
  • (small room used for storage): walk-in closet, storage room
  • (storage area set into a wall, used for storing food or dishware): cupboard, pantry, larder, cabinet
  • (piece of furniture, used for storing clothes): wardrobe, armoire, press (Irish & Scots)
  • (piece of furniture, used for storing food or dishware): cupboard, sideboard, cabinet, press (Irish & Scots), wardrobe (UK)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Czech: klozet
  • → Polish: klozet
  • → Spanish: clóset
  • → Welsh: closet

Translations

Adjective

closet (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Private.
  2. Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet).
  3. Denoting anything kept a secret or private.

See also

  • out

Verb

closet (third-person singular simple present closets, present participle closeting, simple past and past participle closeted)

  1. (transitive) To shut away for private discussion.
  2. (transitive) To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
  3. (transitive) To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.

Derived terms

  • closeted
  • closet oneself

See also

  • come out
  • come out of the closet

References

Anagrams

  • colets, telcos

Old French

Etymology

From clos +‎ -et.

Noun

closet oblique singular, m (oblique plural closez or closetz, nominative singular closez or closetz, nominative plural closet)

  1. A small enclosed area, such as a field or a paddock.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English closet.

Pronunciation

Noun

closet m (plural closets)

  1. dressing room, walk-in closet (US), walk-in wardrobe (UK) (a small room adjoining a domestic bedroom where people may dress or undress in privacy)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “closet”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
  • “closet”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
  • “closet”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025

Romanian

Etymology

From English (water) closet, via French (water-)closet and semi-calque German (Wasser)Klosett.

Noun

closet n (plural closete)

  1. toilet, latrine, bathroom

Declension

See also

  • baie
  • toaletă

References

  • Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Spanish

Noun

closet m (plural closets)

  1. Alternative spelling of clóset

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklɔsɛt/

Etymology 1

From English closet.

Alternative forms

  • closed

Noun

closet m (plural closetau)

  1. closet

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “closet”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

  • cloet (colloquial)
  • cloit (literary)

Verb

closet

  1. second-person singular conditional colloquial of cloi

Mutation


Source: wiktionary.org