languet

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
12
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈlæŋɡwɪt/
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/ˈlæŋɡwɪt/ · /ˈleɪ̯ŋɡwɪt/ · /ˈlæŋɡwət/ · /ˈleɪ̯ŋɡwət/

Definition of languet

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A tongue-shaped implement, specifically:
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noun

  1. A tongue-shaped implement, specifically:
  2. A tongue-shaped implement, specifically:
  3. A tongue-shaped implement, specifically:
    “If there is music for this it’s windy strings and reed sections standing in bright shirt fronts and black ties all along the beach, a robed organist by the breakwater—itself broken, crusted with tides—whose languets and flues gather and shape the resident spooks here.”
  4. (archaic)A narrow tongue of land.
  5. A tongue-like organ found on certain tunicates.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Old French languete (modern French languette), diminutive of langue (“tongue”), from Latin lingua.

Anagrams of languet

1 play · some not in Scrabble

Words you can make from languet

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6-letter words

8 words

5-letter words

17 words

4-letter words

47 words

3-letter words

47 words

2-letter words

16 words

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

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