fleet: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 8 letter points · starts with F · ends with T
Meaning of fleet
noun
- collective
A group of vessels or vehicles, generally operating in a unified way or traveling together.
Example: A fleet of warships is heading this way.
- collective
A group of vessels or vehicles, generally operating in a unified way or traveling together. The vehicles commercially owned by a person, company or agency.
Example: She owns a fleet of private medical transport vans.
- collective
A group of vessels or vehicles, generally operating in a unified way or traveling together. A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; the vessels commanded by a single officer; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
Example: We must invest in our fleet for our national security.
- British-Royal-Navy, collective
A group of vessels or vehicles, generally operating in a unified way or traveling together. Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
Listed forms: fleets, fleete.
Source: Wiktionary — fleet.
noun
- dialectal
An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
Listed forms: fleets.
Source: Wiktionary — fleet.
verb
- ambitransitive
To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
- ambitransitive
To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
- intransitive
To flee, to escape, to speed away.
- intransitive
To evanesce, disappear, die out.
Listed forms: fleets, fleeting, fleeted.
Source: Wiktionary — fleet.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for fleet.
adjective
moving very fast
verb
move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
verb
disappear gradually
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is fleet in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of fleet
F(4) + L(1) + E(1) + E(1) + T(1) = 8 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 fleet
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 fleet
18 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in fleet. Showing up to 24, longest first.