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Is whet a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word whet is a Scrabble US word. The word whet is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

W4H4E1T1

Is whet a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word whet is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

W4H4E1T1

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Yes. The word whet is a Words With Friends word. The word whet is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (2 found)

THEW,WHET,

3-letter words (7 found)

ETH,EWT,HET,HEW,TEW,THE,WET,

2-letter words (6 found)

EH,ET,EW,HE,TE,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 16 words from whet according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of whet

whet hwet weht ewht hewt ehwt whte hwte wthe twhe htwe thwe weth ewth wteh tweh etwh tewh hetw ehtw htew thew ethw tehw

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word whet. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in whet.

Definitions and meaning of whet

whet

Etymology

From Middle English whetten, from Old English hwettan (“to whet, sharpen, incite, encourage”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *hwatjaną (“to incite, sharpen”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁d- (“sharp”).

Cognate with Dutch wetten (“to whet, sharpen”), German wetzen (“to whet, sharpen”), Icelandic hvetja (“to whet, encourage, catalyze”), dialectal Danish hvæde (“to whet”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈwɛt/
    • (without wine–whine) IPA(key): /ˈʍɛt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈwɛt/, [ˈwɛ(ʔ)t̚]
    • (without wine–whine) IPA(key): /ˈʍɛt/, [ˈʍɛ(ʔ)t̚]
  • Rhymes: -ɛt
  • Homophone: wet (with wine–whine merger)

Verb

whet (third-person singular simple present whets, present participle whetting, simple past and past participle whetted or whet)

  1. (transitive) To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone.
  2. (transitive) To stimulate or make more keen.
    • 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xv[1]:
      My faith in vegetarianism grew on me from day to day. Salt's book whetted my appetite for dietetic studies. I went in for all books available on vegetarianism and read them.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To preen.

Derived terms

  • whetter (rare)
  • whetstone

Translations

Noun

whet (plural whets)

  1. The act of whetting something.
  2. That which whets or sharpens; especially, an appetizer.

Derived terms

Anagrams

  • Thew, thew

Middle English

Noun

whet

  1. Alternative form of whete

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī.

Noun

whet

  1. wheat

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 78

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