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Is trumpet a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word trumpet is a Scrabble US word. The word trumpet is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is trumpet a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word trumpet is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

TRUMPET,

6-letter words (2 found)

MUTTER,PUTTER,

5-letter words (8 found)

ERUPT,MPRET,MUTER,TEMPT,TRUMP,TURME,UPTER,UTTER,

4-letter words (19 found)

EMPT,MURE,MUTE,MUTT,PERM,PERT,PREM,PUER,PURE,PUTT,RUME,RUMP,TEMP,TERM,TREM,TRET,TRUE,TUMP,TURM,

3-letter words (25 found)

EMU,ERM,MET,MEU,MUT,PER,PET,PRE,PUR,PUT,REM,REP,RET,RUE,RUM,RUT,TET,TUM,TUP,TUT,UME,UMP,URE,URP,UTE,

2-letter words (12 found)

EM,ER,ET,ME,MU,PE,RE,TE,UM,UP,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 68 words from trumpet according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of trumpet

trumpet

Etymology

From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette (“trumpet”), from Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately imitative.

Cognate with Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”), Old Norse trumba (“pipe; trumpet”). More at drum.

Displaced native English beme, from Middle English beme, from Old English bīeme.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɹʌmpɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ʌmpɪt

Noun

trumpet (plural trumpets)

  2. A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.
  3. Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
  4. The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
  5. (figurative) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
  6. A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
  7. A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.
  8. A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.
  9. Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
  10. (US, slang, often capitalized) A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.

Synonyms

  • (musical instrument): beme, cornet, flugelhorn

Hyponyms

  • (musical instrument): natural trumpet, straight trumpet

Meronyms

  • (musical instrument, opening): bell, codon, mouth

Derived terms

Translations

References

  • 2009. Tipbook Trumpet and Trombone, Flugelhorn and Cornet: The Complete Guide. Hugo Pinksterboer. Pg. 141.

Verb

trumpet (third-person singular simple present trumpets, present participle trumpeting, simple past and past participle trumpeted)

  1. (intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified
  2. (intransitive) To play the trumpet.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.
  4. (transitive, intransitive) To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.
  5. (transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically

Translations

Related terms

  • trumpet player
  • trumpeter
  • trumpetress

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • trompette, trumpette, trompet, troumpette

Etymology

From Old French trompette; equivalent to trumpe +‎ -et.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtrumpɛt/, /ˈtrumpit/

Noun

trumpet (plural trumpetes)

  1. A trumpet; a small brass instrument.
  2. One who uses or plays such an instrument.

Descendants

  • English: trumpet
  • Scots: trumpet

References

  • “trompet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-16.

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately imitative.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /trɵmˈpeːt/

Noun

trumpet c

  2. trumpet
Declension
Hyponyms
  • piccolotrumpet c
  • signaltrumpet c
  • fanfartrumpet c
  • bastrumpet c
  • aidatrumpet c
Derived terms
  • flugor i trumpeten
See also
  • trumpeta (verb)
  • trumpetare c (“trumpeter”)
  • trumpetblåsare c (“trumpeter”)

References

  • trumpet in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • trumpet in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • trumpet in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Etymology 2

Adjective

trumpet

  1. indefinite neuter singular of trumpen

Source: wiktionary.org