cricket: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 15 letter points · starts with C · ends with T
Meaning of cricket
noun
An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
- US, humorous, in-plural, slang
An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs. In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
- slang
An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
Listed forms: crickets, crecket.
Source: Wiktionary — cricket.
noun
- uncountable
A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
- UK, uncountable
An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
- uncountable
A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
Source: Wiktionary — cricket.
verb
- intransitive, rare
To play the game of cricket.
Listed forms: crickets, cricketing, cricketed.
Source: Wiktionary — cricket.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is cricket in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of cricket
C(3) + R(1) + I(1) + C(3) + K(5) + E(1) + T(1) = 15 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of cricket
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from cricket
45 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in cricket. Showing up to 24, longest first.