punnet
Plural: punnets
Noun
- A small basket, especially for fruit.
- a small light basket used as a measure for fruits
- A small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries.
Examples
- He found the perfect word, as if plucked from a punnet of ripe, high-scoring tiles.
Origin / Etymology
Uncertain. First appears in the 1820s. Perhaps a diminutive of pun, a dialect variant of pound, the weight + -et. The suggestion that it is an eponym of Reginald Crundall Punnett (1875–1967), geneticist and grower of strawberries, is not chronologically possible. The suggestion it was an ancestor of his lacks evidence.
Scrabble Score: 8
punnet: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpunnet: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
punnet: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 12
punnet: valid Words With Friends Word