splet

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
9
Letters
5

Definition of splet

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive)To split.
    “I Splette a fyſſhe a ſonder / as a pyke oꝛ lynge oꝛ ſuche lyke / Ie ouuers, coniugate in I open. Some ſplet their pyckes whan they bꝛoyle them / but I wolde bꝛoyle them hole: […]”
    “[T]he Ship will leake: nay / one bouncinge billowe will ſplet the Bark in peeces.”
    “Oh the Dowl ſplet tha! who told theckee Strammer?”
    ““Splet the thing;” cried Hallibert; “talk ye o’ return, guid wife?[…]””
    “e.Yks.¹ Ah laughed fit ta splet.”

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Etymology

From Dutch or Middle Low German spletten, obscurely related to split and spleet.

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