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Is curvet a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word curvet is a Scrabble US word. The word curvet is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

C3U1R1V4E1T1

Is curvet a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word curvet is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

C3U1R1V4E1T1

Is curvet a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word curvet is a Words With Friends word. The word curvet is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

C4U2R1V5E1T1

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6-letter words (1 found)

CURVET,

5-letter words (9 found)

CRUET,CRUVE,CURET,CURVE,CUTER,ERUCT,RECUT,TRUCE,VERTU,

4-letter words (9 found)

CERT,CRUE,CURE,CURT,CUTE,ECRU,ERUV,TRUE,VERT,

3-letter words (15 found)

CRU,CUE,CUR,CUT,ECU,REC,RET,REV,RUC,RUE,RUT,TEC,URE,UTE,VET,

2-letter words (6 found)

ER,ET,RE,TE,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 41 words from curvet according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of curvet

curvet

Etymology

From Italian corvetta, diminutive of corva, an early form of curva (“curve”), from Latin curva, feminine of curvus (“bent, curved”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kɜːˈvɛt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /kɚˈvɛt/

Verb

curvet (third-person singular simple present curvets, present participle curveting or curvetting, simple past and past participle curveted or curvetted)

  1. (intransitive) Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic.
  2. (transitive) To cause to leap about, dart or jump.
  3. (of a bird) To fly or swim with darting movements.
  4. (figuratively) (of a person) To prance; to caper, frolic.
  5. (figuratively) (of an object) To jump, skip, shake.

Noun

curvet (plural curvets)

  1. A particular leap in which a horse raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as the forelegs are falling, raises the hind legs, so that all the legs are in the air at once.
  2. A prank; a frolic.

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

curvet

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of curvō

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