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Is pallet a Scrabble word?

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

P3A1L1L1E1T1

Is pallet a Scrabble UK word?

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

P3A1L1L1E1T1

Is pallet a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word pallet is a Words With Friends word. The word pallet is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

P4A1L2L2E1T1

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6-letter words (1 found)

PALLET,

5-letter words (9 found)

LAPEL,LEAPT,LEPTA,PALET,PELTA,PETAL,PLATE,PLEAT,TEPAL,

4-letter words (23 found)

LATE,LEAL,LEAP,LEAT,LEPT,PALE,PALL,PATE,PEAL,PEAT,PELA,PELL,PELT,PLAT,PLEA,TAEL,TALE,TALL,TAPE,TEAL,TELA,TELL,TEPA,

3-letter words (25 found)

ALE,ALL,ALP,ALT,APE,APT,ATE,EAT,ELL,ELT,ETA,LAP,LAT,LEA,LEP,LET,PAL,PAT,PEA,PEL,PET,TAE,TAP,TEA,TEL,

2-letter words (11 found)

AE,AL,AT,EA,EL,ET,LA,PA,PE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 70 words from pallet according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of pallet

pallet

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpælɪt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpælɪt/, /ˈpælət/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈpælət/
  • Rhymes: -ælɪt
  • Homophones: palate, palette, pallette

Etymology 1

From Middle English palet, from Anglo-Norman palete, from Old Norse pallr. Doublet of palette.

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. what does Old Norse pallr mean?

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

  1. A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
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Verb

pallet (third-person singular simple present pallets, present participle palleting, simple past and past participle palleted)

  1. (transitive) To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.

Etymology 2

From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

  1. A straw bed.
  2. (by extension) A makeshift bed.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Latin palla (“to cut”), hence “a strip of cloth”.

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

  1. (heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.
Alternative forms
  • palet

Etymology 4

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

  1. (painting) Archaic form of palette.
  2. A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
  3. A potter's wheel.
  4. (gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
  5. (gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
  6. (brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
  7. (engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
  8. (engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
  9. (horology) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.
  10. (music) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
  11. (zoology) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.
  12. A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.

References

  • The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press
  • Notes:

Anagrams

  • L-plate, laplet, platel

Dutch

Etymology

From English pallet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛlət/
  • Homophone: pellet
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

pallet m (plural pallets, diminutive palletje n)

  1. pallet

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pallet.

Noun

pallet m

  1. pallet

Latin

Verb

pallet

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of palleō

Source: wiktionary.org