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Is turret a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word turret is a Scrabble US word. The word turret is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is turret a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word turret is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

T1U1R1R1E1T1

Is turret a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word turret is a Words With Friends word. The word turret is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (2 found)

RUTTER,TURRET,

5-letter words (2 found)

TRUER,UTTER,

4-letter words (4 found)

RUER,TRET,TRUE,TURR,

3-letter words (8 found)

ERR,RET,RUE,RUT,TET,TUT,URE,UTE,

2-letter words (6 found)

ER,ET,RE,TE,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 23 words from turret according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of turret

turret

Etymology

From Middle English touret, from Old French torete (French tourette), diminutive of tour (“tower”), from Latin turris. See tower.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) enPR: tŭr'ĭt, IPA(key): /ˈtʌɹ.ɪt/, /ˈtʊɹ.ɪt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɝ.ɪt/ (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
  • Rhymes: -ʌɹɪt

Noun

turret (plural turrets)

  1. (architecture) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
    • 1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, republished in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, 1862, OCLC 5091562, pages 7–8:
      There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
  2. (historical, military) A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
  3. (electronics) A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
  4. (military) An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
  5. (rail transport) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.

Synonyms

  • (military): cupola

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • Rutter, rutter

Source: wiktionary.org