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

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Is fettle a Scrabble UK word?

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6-letter words (1 found)

FETTLE,

5-letter words (3 found)

ETTLE,FLEET,LEFTE,

4-letter words (12 found)

FEEL,FEET,FELT,FETE,FETT,FLEE,LEET,LEFT,TEEL,TELE,TELT,TETE,

3-letter words (12 found)

EEL,EFT,ELF,ELT,FEE,FET,LEE,LET,TEE,TEF,TEL,TET,

2-letter words (6 found)

EE,EF,EL,ET,FE,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 35 words from fettle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of fettle

fettle

Etymology

From Late Middle English fetlen (“(verb) to bestow; to fix, prepare, put in place; to prepare (oneself) for battle, gird up; to shape; to be about to, or to ready (oneself) to stay; (adjective) shaped (well or poorly)”) [and other forms], and then possibly:

  • from Old English fetel (“belt, girdle, fettle”), from Proto-Germanic *fatilaz, further etymology unknown; or
  • from Old English fetian (“to fetch”), from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“foot”).

Compare Old English ġefetelsod (“provided with a belt; trimmed, polished, ornamented”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛtl̩/
  • Rhymes: -ɛtəl
  • Hyphenation: fet‧tle

Noun

fettle (plural fettles)

  1. A state of physical condition; kilter or trim.
  2. One's mental state; spirits.
  3. Sand used to line a furnace.
  4. (ceramics) A seam line left by the meeting of mould pieces.
  5. (UK, dialectal) The act of fettling.
  6. (Cumbria, Geordie) A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.

Usage notes

Outside of dialects, this noun is a fossil, found only in the phrase in fine fettle; but the verb and the corresponding gerund remain in common use in British English (for example, "this will need a bit of fettling to get sorted").

Derived terms

  • in fine fettle

Translations

Verb

fettle (third-person singular simple present fettles, present participle fettling, simple past and past participle fettled)

  2. (especially Northern England) To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
    Coordinate term: fiddle
  3. (intransitive) To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
  4. (transitive) To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
  5. (reflexive, Geordie) To be upset or in a bad mood.
    Divint fettle yersel ower that!
  6. In ceramics, to remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
  7. (transitive, archaic) To prepare.

Derived terms

  • fettler
  • fettling
  • refettle

Translations

See also

  • fash

References

Further reading

  • Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
  • “fettle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]
  • Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]
  • Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
  • A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [4]

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