Whet is valid Scrabble Word

Is whet a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is whet valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

4 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for WHET in dictionary:

VERB:

to sharpen by friction
sharpen the blade of (a tool or weapon)
sharpen (a tool)
To rub or on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a knife.
To make sharp, keen, or eager; to excite; to stimulate; as, to whet the appetite or the courage.
make keen or more acute
sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone
excite or stimulate (someone's desire, interest, or appetite)

NOUN:

a thing that stimulates appetite or desire
The act of whetting.

That which whets or sharpens; esp., an appetizer.
act of whetting

Words related to WHET

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Words that contain WHET

whets11 awheto12 awhetos13 whether16 whetted14 whetter13 whetters14 whetting15 whetstone15 whetstones16

How to use WHET in a sentence

If I whet the lightning of my sword, and mine hand take in hand to do justice, I will shew vengeance on mine enemies and will reward them that hate me.
But they were tales, too, to whet the courage and sharpen the steel of every man who could fight and meant to go.
Thus doth prosperity commonly whet the edge of licence.
No measure can be more desirable, whet her viewed with an eye to its intrinsic importance or to the general sentiment and wish of the nation.
If nothing more, let there be an equivalent for whet has been received from China.
They obeyed, as Abraham did when he began to whet his knife for his son Isaac.
For this our senators make long harangues, And florid members whet their polished tongues.
They see and know with admirable penetration, when one of them presents to another a weapon which she herself is forbidden to whet.
Not too long, for he was not sufficiently bound to her to be safe from forgetting, but just long enough to whet his eagerness.
To give thy sword an edge again, this Frenchman Shall whet thee on, that if thy pistol fail, Or poniard, this can send the poison home.

The following extract gives the best possible synopsis of the causes, and should whet an appetite which can be gratified by the purchase of Mr.
In the face of this additional whet to the anticipations of the party of disturbance, something that has been described as anarchy prevailed.
Indeed, so thorough and wholesale was the destruction of these memorials now so precious in our eyes that hardly enough remain to whet the wits of antiquaries.
A man walking down out of the barren hills, and carrying absolutely nothing in the way of camp outfit, was enough to whet the curiosity of any one who knew that country.
To vulgar natures, the topic of mere wealth is ever an attractive one, and in the present instance there was an additional whet to appetite in the connection of Carew with Gethin.
The glittering sword is whet and held over them, and the pit hath opened her mouth under them.
These are never designed to know the length of the Foot, but only, when a good Offer comes, to whet and spur him up to the Point.
And in the meantime George might whet his teeth on the detailed arrangements for feeding and camping the Battery on Epsom Downs.
In one corner of the square a theatre was in full swing, the actors making up in public on a balcony above the crowd, so as to whet their curiosity and attract their custom.
Judge of my astonishment, reader, when I saw this incarnate fiend take a large carving-knife and go to the grindstone to whet its edge.
This is the day appointed for us! but we must either fit the suspended noose, or whet the sword with our hand.
This morning, well before light, we took out our gentleman, dragged by an immense string of oxen, to introduce him to his future victims and whet his appetite by a taste.
Our sport has whet the edge of appetite, and I would fain hear what the missive was which yon knave brought with him.
And now for sagacity indeed! The moment the men began to whet their scythes, the two old larks began to flutter over the nest, and to make a great clamour.
We found these fair creatures drinking Madeira as a whet to their appetites.
On the contrary, it seemed to whet his desire for fiercer and more consuming excitement.

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