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Is fleet a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word fleet is a Scrabble US word. The word fleet is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is fleet a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word fleet is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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5-letter words (2 found)

FLEET,LEFTE,

4-letter words (9 found)

FEEL,FEET,FELT,FETE,FLEE,LEET,LEFT,TEEL,TELE,

3-letter words (11 found)

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

2-letter words (6 found)

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

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 29 words from fleet according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of fleet

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Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word fleet. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in fleet.

Definitions and meaning of fleet

fleet

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fliːt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /flit/
  • Rhymes: -iːt

Etymology 1

From Middle English flete, flet (“fleet”), from Old English flēot (“ship”), likely related to Proto-West Germanic *flotōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”).

Noun

fleet (plural fleets)

  1. A group of vessels or vehicles.
  2. Any group of associated items.
  3. A large, coordinated group of people.
  4. (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
  5. (nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
Alternative forms
  • fleete (obsolete)
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Etymology 2

From Middle English flete, flete (“bay, gulf”), from Old English flēot (“a bay, gulf, an arm of the sea, estuary, the mouth of a river”), from Proto-West Germanic *fleut, from Proto-Germanic *fleutą.

Cognate with Dutch vliet (“stream, river, creek, inlet”), German Fleet (“watercourse, canal”).

Noun

fleet (plural fleets)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete outside of place names) An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
    • 1628, A. Matthewes (translator), Aminta (originally by Torquato Tasso)
      Together wove we nets to entrap the fish
      In floods and sedgy fleets.
  2. (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Middle English fleten (“float”), from Old English flēotan (“float”), from Proto-West Germanic *fleutan, from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną.

Verb

fleet (third-person singular simple present fleets, present participle fleeting, simple past and past participle fleeted)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To float.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
    • 1817-18, Percy Shelley, Rosalind and Helen, lines 626-627:
      And so through this dark world they fleet / Divided, till in death they meet.
  4. (intransitive) To flee, to escape, to speed away.
  5. (intransitive) To evanesce, disappear, die out.
  6. (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
  7. (nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.
  8. (nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
  9. To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
  10. To take the cream from; to skim.
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Adjective

fleet (comparative fleeter or more fleet, superlative fleetest or most fleet)

  1. (literary) Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.
    Synonyms: nimble, fast
  2. (uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
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Etymology 4

See flet.

Noun

fleet (plural fleets)

  1. (Yorkshire) Obsolete form of flet (“house, floor, large room”).
    • 1686, "Lyke Wake Dirge" as printed in The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900) p. 361:
      Fire and fleet and candle-lighte

Anagrams

  • felte, lefte

Middle English

Noun

fleet

  1. Alternative form of flete (“bay”)

Source: wiktionary.org