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Is cresset a Scrabble word?

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

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Is cresset a Scrabble UK word?

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

C3R1E1S1S1E1T1

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7-letter words (4 found)

CRESSET,RESECTS,SCREETS,SECRETS,

6-letter words (16 found)

CERTES,CESSER,CRESTS,ERECTS,ESTERS,RECESS,REESTS,RESECT,RESETS,SCREES,SCREET,SECRET,SEREST,STEERS,STERES,TERCES,

5-letter words (26 found)

CERES,CERTS,CESSE,CETES,CREES,CRESS,CREST,ERECT,ERSES,ESTER,REEST,RESES,RESET,RESTS,SCREE,SECTS,SEERS,SERES,STEER,STERE,TEERS,TERCE,TERES,TERSE,TREES,TRESS,

4-letter words (29 found)

CEES,CERE,CERT,CESS,CETE,CREE,ERES,ERST,ESES,ESSE,ESTS,RECS,REES,REST,RETE,RETS,SECS,SECT,SEER,SEES,SERE,SERS,SESE,SETS,TECS,TEER,TEES,TREE,TRES,

3-letter words (16 found)

CEE,ERE,ERS,ESS,EST,REC,REE,RES,RET,SEC,SEE,SER,SET,TEC,TEE,TES,

2-letter words (7 found)

EE,ER,ES,ET,RE,ST,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 99 words from cresset according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cresset

cresset

Etymology

From Middle English cresset, from Old French crasset, cresset (“sort of lamp or torch”); perhaps of Old Dutch or Old High German origin, and akin to English cruse and/or French creuset (“crucible”), the latter being from Gallo-Roman Vulgar Latin *croceolus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɹɛsɪt/

Noun

cresset (plural cressets)

  1. A metal cup, suspended from a pole and filled with burning pitch etc; once used as portable illumination.
  2. (coopering) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.
    • 1805–1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy, "Inferno", Canto VIII
      We reach'd the lofty turret's base, our eyes / its height ascended, where we mark'd uphung / two cressets and another saw from far

Translations

See also

  • brazier

Anagrams

  • Secrest, resects, secrets

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • crasset, crescet, cressett, cressyt, kirsett, kressette

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French crasset, cresset, possibly from a West Germanic language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krɛˈsɛt/, /ˈkrɛsɛt/

Noun

cresset (plural cressettes)

  1. cresset (metal cup filled with pitch)

Descendants

  • English: cresset

References

  • “cresset, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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