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Yes. The word quitter is a Scrabble US word. The word quitter is worth 16 points in Scrabble:

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7-letter words (1 found)

QUITTER,

6-letter words (1 found)

REQUIT,

5-letter words (11 found)

QUIET,QUIRE,QUIRT,QUITE,TETRI,TITER,TITRE,TRITE,URITE,UTERI,UTTER,

4-letter words (11 found)

ETUI,IURE,QUIT,RITE,RITT,TIER,TIRE,TITE,TRET,TRIE,TRUE,

3-letter words (13 found)

IRE,REI,RET,RIT,RUE,RUT,TET,TIE,TIT,TUI,TUT,URE,UTE,

2-letter words (9 found)

ER,ET,IT,QI,RE,TE,TI,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 47 words from quitter according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of quitter

quitter

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkwɪ.tə/
  • Rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: quittor

Etymology 1

From Middle English quitter, from Anglo-Norman quiture, quyture et al., specialised use of quiture (“burn mark, burning”), from the participle stem of cuire (“to cook”), or from Latin coctura (“cooking”).

Alternative forms

  • quittor (obsolete except farriery)
  • quitture (obsolete)

Noun

quitter (uncountable)

  1. (now rare outside Jamaica) Matter flowing from a wound or sore; pus.
  2. (farriery) Alternative spelling of quittor (“fistulous wound at the top of a horse's foot”)
  3. (obsolete) Scoria of tin.

Verb

quitter (third-person singular simple present quitters, present participle quittering, simple past and past participle quittered)

  1. To suppurate; ooze with pus.

Etymology 2

From quit +‎ -er.

Noun

quitter (plural quitters)

  2. One who quits, as:
    2. One who gives in.
      Synonym: (humorous) giver-upper
    4. One who succeeds in desisting from a vice, especially smoking, drinking, or drugging.
      Hypernym: ever-smoker
      Coordinate term: never-smoker
  3. (archaic) A leaver.
  4. (obsolete) A deliverer.
Derived terms
  • rage quitter
  • spitters are quitters
Translations

French

Etymology

From quitte +‎ -er, or from Late Latin quietare (“acquit, discharge, release”), from Latin quiētāre (“to calm”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ki.te/

Verb

quitter

  1. (transitive, law or obsolete) to discharge somebody from an obligation
  2. (transitive, of a place) to leave, to quit
  3. (transitive, of a person) to part with somebody, to leave somebody

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • ne pas quitter d’une semelle
  • ne pas quitter des yeux
  • quittance
  • quitter le navire

Related terms

  • acquitter

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

Old French quitter.

Verb

quitter

  1. to release from an obligation; to forgive (a debt)
  2. to liberate; to free
  3. to pardon
  4. to leave

Conjugation

  • Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

  • French: quitter

References

  • quitter on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (quitter, supplement)

Old French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin quiētus (“at rest”).

Verb

quitter

  1. to liberate; to free

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-tt, *-tts, *-ttt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

  • → English: quit
  • French: quitter

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (quitter, supplement)
  • quitter on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
  • Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

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