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Is rocket a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word rocket is a Scrabble US word. The word rocket is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is rocket a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word rocket is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

ROCKET,

5-letter words (6 found)

OCKER,RECTO,TOKER,TRECK,TROCK,TROKE,

4-letter words (18 found)

CERO,CERT,COKE,CORE,CORK,COTE,KERO,KETO,KORE,RECK,ROCK,ROKE,ROTE,TOCK,TOKE,TORC,TORE,TREK,

3-letter words (21 found)

COR,COT,ECO,ERK,KET,KOR,OKE,ORC,ORE,ORT,REC,REO,RET,ROC,ROE,ROK,ROT,TEC,TOC,TOE,TOR,

2-letter words (9 found)

ER,ET,KO,OE,OK,OR,RE,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 56 words from rocket according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of rocket

rocket

Pronunciation

  • (UK)
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹɒk.ɪt/
  • (US)
    • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹɑk.ɪt/
    • (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈɹɑ.kət/
  • Rhymes: -ɒkɪt

Etymology 1

From Italian rocchetta, from Old Italian rocchetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff”), from Lombardic rocko (“spinning wheel”), from Proto-West Germanic *rokkō, from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”). Cognate with Old High German rocco, rocko, roccho, rocho ("a distaff"; > German Rocken (“a distaff”)), Swedish rock (“a distaff”), Icelandic rokkur (“a distaff”), Middle English rocke (“a distaff”). More at rock⁴.

Noun

rocket (plural rockets)

  1. A projectile.
    1. A cylindrical projectile that can be fired to a great height through combustion, (specifically) a type of firework of this form, typically exploding with light and colour; a skyrocket. [from 16th c.]
    2. A blunt lance head used in jousting.
    3. A long vehicle or craft propelled by a rocket engine; a missile or rocket-propelled spacecraft. [from 20th c.]
    4. An engine operating similarly to the pyrotechnic, generating thrust by the expulsion of hot gases; a rocket engine. [from 20th c.]
  2. Figurative uses.
    1. Something that travels high in the air and/or with great speed; especially (sport), a hard shot. [from 20th c.]
    2. (UK slang, originally military) A severe reprimand; a telling-off. [from 20th c.]
    3. (slang) An ace (the playing card).
    4. (Scotland, slang) A stupid or crazy person.
    5. (South East England, slang) A very physically attractive woman.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • ICBM
References
  • Watkins, Calvert (2000). The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots 2nd edn., p. 72, s.v. ruk-. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN.
  • Weisenberg, Michael (2000). The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN.
  • “rocket”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Verb

rocket (third-person singular simple present rockets, present participle rocketing, simple past and past participle rocketed)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To accelerate swiftly and powerfully.
  2. To fly vertically.
  3. To rise or soar rapidly.
  4. To experience sudden fame, popularity, or success.
    After spending years in obscurity, the band finally rocketed last week.
  5. To carry something in a rocket.
  6. To attack something with rockets.
Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French roquette, from Italian ruchetta, diminutive of ruca, from Latin eruca. Cognate to arugula, rucola, eruca, roquette.

Noun

rocket (uncountable)

  1. The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.
  2. Rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis).
Synonyms
  • (US) arugula
  • rocket salad
Derived terms
  • wild rocket, perennial wall rocket, sand rocket, white rocket (Diplotaxis tenuifolia)
  • London rocket (Sisymbrium irio)
  • dame's rocket, sweet rocket (Hesperis matronalis)
  • blue rocket (Aconitum)
  • dyer's rocket, bastard rocket (Reseda)
  • yellowrocket, rocketcress, winter rocket, wound rocket (Barbarea vulgaris)
Translations

French

Pronunciation

Noun

rocket m (plural rockets)

  1. rocket (weapon)

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org