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Is dacoit a Scrabble word?

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

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Is dacoit a Scrabble UK word?

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

D2A1C3O1I1T1

Is dacoit a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word dacoit is a Words With Friends word. The word dacoit is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

DACOIT,

5-letter words (6 found)

COATI,DIACT,DICOT,DICTA,DIOTA,OCTAD,

4-letter words (22 found)

ACID,ADIT,ATOC,CADI,CAID,CIAO,CITO,COAT,CODA,COID,COIT,DATO,DICT,DITA,DOAT,DOIT,IOTA,OCTA,ODIC,OTIC,TACO,TOAD,

3-letter words (24 found)

ACT,ADO,AID,AIT,CAD,CAT,CID,CIT,COD,COT,DIT,DOC,DOT,ITA,OAT,OCA,ODA,TAD,TAI,TAO,TIC,TID,TOC,TOD,

2-letter words (14 found)

AD,AI,AT,DA,DI,DO,ID,IO,IT,OD,OI,TA,TI,TO,

You can make 67 words from dacoit according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of dacoit

dacoit

Alternative forms

  • dacoo, dakoit, dakoo, decoit

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani ڈکیت / डकैत (ḍakait), from ڈاکا (ḍākā) / डाका (ḍākā, “gang-robbery”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dəˈkɔɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪt

Noun

dacoit (plural dacoits)

  1. (chiefly India, Pakistan, Myanmar) A bandit or armed robber, especially former parts of British India.
    • 1893, Bithia Mary Croker, "The Dâk Bungalow at Dakor" in "To Let" etc., Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906, p. 118, [1]
      […] she had harangued us on the subject of fever and cholera and bad water, had warned us solemnly against dacoits, and now she was hinting at ghosts.

Derived terms

  • dacoitage
  • dacoity

Translations

Verb

dacoit (third-person singular simple present dacoits, present participle dacoiting, simple past and past participle dacoited)

  1. (chiefly India) To commit armed robbery.

References

  • “dacoit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

Source: wiktionary.org