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Is musette a Scrabble word?

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

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Is musette a Scrabble UK word?

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

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7-letter words (1 found)

MUSETTE,

6-letter words (4 found)

MUSTEE,MUTEST,SUTTEE,TUTEES,

5-letter words (16 found)

EMEUS,MEETS,METES,MEUSE,MUSET,MUTES,MUTTS,STEEM,STEME,SUETE,TEEMS,TEMES,TEMSE,TESTE,TETES,TUTEE,

4-letter words (34 found)

EMES,EMEU,EMUS,MEES,MEET,MESE,METE,METS,MEUS,MUSE,MUST,MUTE,MUTS,MUTT,SEEM,SEME,SETT,SMEE,SMUT,STEM,STET,STUM,SUET,TEEM,TEES,TEME,TEMS,TEST,TETE,TETS,TUMS,TUTS,UMES,UTES,

3-letter words (24 found)

EME,EMS,EMU,EST,MEE,MES,MET,MEU,MUS,MUT,SEE,SET,SUE,SUM,TEE,TES,TET,TUM,TUT,UME,UMS,USE,UTE,UTS,

2-letter words (11 found)

EE,EM,ES,ET,ME,MU,ST,TE,UM,US,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 91 words from musette according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of musette

musette

Etymology

From both of the following:

  • Late Middle English musette (“type of bagpipe”), from Middle French musette, Old French musette (“type of bagpipe”) (modern French musette), from muse (“bagpipe”) + -ette (diminutive suffix). Muse is derived from muser (“to play the bagpipe; (figuratively) to flatter”), perhaps from musel (“muzzle (protruding part of an animal’s head)”) (alluding to a bagpipe player puffing out the cheeks), from Late Latin mūsus (“muzzle”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps expressive of protruding lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgiō (“to bellow, low, moo”), from Proto-Indo-European *mug-, *mūg- (onomatopoeia of the lowing of cattle).
  • Borrowed from French musette in the 18th century.

Sense 2 (“small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap”) is due to the resemblance of the original knapsack to the bag of bagpipes.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mjuːˈzɛt/, /mjʊ-/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /mjuˈzɛt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛt
  • Hyphenation: mus‧ette

Noun

musette (plural musettes)

  1. (music)
    1. (historical) Any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows, which were popular in France in the 17th and early 18th century. [from 14th c.]
      Synonyms: pastoral oboe, shepherd's pipe
      1. (by extension) A pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating such an instrument; also, a dance performed to this music. [from 18th c.]
    2. (historical) An organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators, found in organs in France in the 17th and 18th centuries. [from 19th c.]
    3. A small oboe without a cap for its reed, which evolved from the chanter or pipe of bagpipes; a piccolo oboe. [from 19th c.]
      Synonyms: oboe musette, piccoloboe
  2. (chiefly US, originally military) In full musette bag: a small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap, formerly used by soldiers, and now (cycling) chiefly by cyclists to hold food and beverages or other items. [from 20th c.]
    (cycling): Hyponym: bonk bag

Related terms

  • bal musette
  • musar

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References

Further reading

  • musette (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • piccolo oboe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • glossary of cycling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French musette, Old French musette (“type of bagpipe”), from muse (“bagpipe”) +‎ -ette (diminutive suffix). Muse is a deverbal of muser (“to play the bagpipe; (figuratively) to flatter”), perhaps from musel (“muzzle (protruding part of an animal’s head)”) (alluding to a bagpipe player puffing out the cheeks), from Late Latin mūsus (“muzzle”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps expressive of protruding lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgiō (“to bellow, low, moo”), from Proto-Indo-European *mug-, *mūg- (onomatopoeia of the lowing of cattle).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /my.zɛt/

Noun

musette f (plural musettes)

  1. musette
  2. bagpipe
  3. Ellipsis of bal musette.
  4. haversack (small bag for provisions)
    Synonym: havresac
  5. nosebag (round sack or bag to feed for a horse)

Derived terms

  • bal musette
  • valse musette

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • muettes

Italian

Noun

musette f

  1. plural of musetta

Source: wiktionary.org