briquet
Plural: briquets
Noun
- a block made from charcoal or coal dust and burned as fuel
- Alternative form of briquette in all its senses.
- Synonym of lighter in reference to any device used to light cigarettes.
Verb
Verb Forms: briquetted, briquetting, briquets
- To compress or mold material into small blocks or briquettes.
- Alternative form of briquette.
Examples
- He tried to briquet his many I’s and U’s into a single, useful word.
Origin / Etymology
In most senses, a variant spelling of briquette. As a lighter, a borrowing of French briquet, from Middle French briquet (“piece, morsel”), from brique (“brick, block”) + -et (suffix forming masculine diminutives).
Synonyms
briquette, lighter in reference to any device used to light cigarettes
Scrabble Score: 18
briquet: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbriquet: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
briquet: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary