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Is doublet a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word doublet is a Scrabble US word. The word doublet is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

D2O1U1B3L1E1T1

Is doublet a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word doublet is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

D2O1U1B3L1E1T1

Is doublet a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word doublet is a Words With Friends word. The word doublet is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

D2O1U2B4L2E1T1

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7-letter words (2 found)

BOULTED,DOUBLET,

6-letter words (5 found)

BOLTED,BUTLED,DOUBLE,LOUTED,OUTLED,

5-letter words (18 found)

BLUDE,BLUED,BLUET,BODLE,BOTEL,BOULE,BOULT,BUTEO,BUTLE,DEBUT,DOUBT,LOBED,LOUED,LUBED,LUTED,OUTED,TOLED,TUBED,

4-letter words (46 found)

BEDU,BELT,BLED,BLET,BLOT,BLUD,BLUE,BODE,BOET,BOLD,BOLE,BOLT,BOTE,BOUT,BUDO,BUTE,DEBT,DELO,DELT,DOBE,DOLE,DOLT,DOTE,DOUT,DUEL,DUET,DULE,LEUD,LOBE,LODE,LOTE,LOUD,LOUT,LUBE,LUDE,LUDO,LUTE,OLDE,OULD,TELD,TOED,TOLD,TOLE,TOLU,TUBE,TULE,

3-letter words (40 found)

BED,BEL,BET,BOD,BOT,BUD,BUT,DEB,DEL,DOB,DOE,DOL,DOT,DUB,DUE,DUO,ELD,ELT,LED,LET,LEU,LOB,LOD,LOT,LOU,LUD,OBE,ODE,OLD,OLE,OUD,OUT,TED,TEL,TOD,TOE,TUB,UDO,ULE,UTE,

2-letter words (15 found)

BE,BO,DE,DO,ED,EL,ET,LO,OB,OD,OE,OU,TE,TO,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 127 words from doublet according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of doublet

doublet

Alternative forms

  • doubtlet (archaic)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdʌblət/

Etymology 1

From Middle English doublet, a borrowing from Old French doublet, from double, duble, doble + -et.

Noun

doublet (plural doublets)

  1. A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
  3. (linguistics) One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English).
  4. (literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
  5. (lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
  6. (printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
  7. (quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.
  8. (computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
  9. (botany) A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
  10. A word ladder puzzle.
  11. An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
  12. Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
  13. (uncountable, obsolete) A game somewhat like backgammon.
  14. (radio) Dipole antenna.
  15. (historical) A man’s waistcoat.
Synonyms
  • (pair of two similar things): duet, dyad; see also Thesaurus:duo
Derived terms
  • Montrose doublet
  • Wollaston's doublet
Translations

See also

  • homolog
  • pair
  • twin
  • twinling

Etymology 2

From Italian giubbetta, from giubba, from Arabic جبة (“to en-wrap”).

Noun

doublet (plural doublets)

  1. A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
Translations

Further reading

  • doublet in Hensleigh Wedgwood, On False Etymologies, Transactions of the Philological Society,1855
  • “doublet”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “doublet”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • bled out, boulted, outbled

French

Etymology

From double +‎ -et.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /du.blɛ/

Noun

doublet m (plural doublets)

  1. (lexicography) doublet

Further reading

  • “doublet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Source: wiktionary.org