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Is gannet a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gannet is a Scrabble US word. The word gannet is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is gannet a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gannet is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

G2A1N1N1E1T1

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

GANNET,

5-letter words (2 found)

AGENT,ANENT,

4-letter words (18 found)

AGEN,ANTE,ETNA,GAEN,GANE,GANT,GATE,GEAN,GEAT,GENA,GENT,GETA,GNAT,NANE,NANG,NEAT,TANE,TANG,

3-letter words (26 found)

AGE,ANE,ANN,ANT,ATE,EAN,EAT,ENG,ETA,GAE,GAN,GAT,GEN,GET,NAE,NAG,NAN,NAT,NEG,NET,TAE,TAG,TAN,TEA,TEG,TEN,

2-letter words (11 found)

AE,AG,AN,AT,EA,EN,ET,NA,NE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 59 words from gannet according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gannet

gannet

Etymology

From Middle English ganet, gante, from Old English ganot, from Proto-West Germanic *ganat, *ganatō, from Proto-Germanic *ganatuz, *ganutô (“gander”), ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *ganzô.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡænɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ænɪt

Noun

gannet (plural gannets)

  1. Any of three species of large seabird in the genus Morus, of the family Sulidae. They have black and white bodies and long pointed wings, and hunt for fish by plunge diving and pursuing their prey underwater.
  2. (chiefly British, South Africa) A voracious eater; a glutton.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:gannet.

Synonyms

  • (voracious eater): see Thesaurus:glutton

Derived terms

  • northern gannet, Morus bassanus
  • Australasian gannet, Morus serrator
  • Cape gannet, Morus capensis

Translations

Verb

gannet (third-person singular simple present gannets, present participle ganneting, simple past and past participle ganneted)

  1. (chiefly transitive, informal, British) To wolf down, gobble or eat (something) voraciously.
    • Gaynor Kay, Pebble in the Grass (page 115)
      She was no longer in the company of her older sister and mother who had often scolded her for ganneting down her food.

Source: wiktionary.org