Definitions for rivulet

rivulet riv·u·let

Spelling: [riv-yuh-lit]
IPA: /ˈrɪv yə lɪt/

Rivulet is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in rivulet (eilrtuv).

Definitions for rivulet

noun

  1. a small stream; streamlet; brook.

Origin of rivulet

1580-90; earlier rivolet Italian rivoletto, diminutive of rivolo Latin rīvulus small stream

Examples for rivulet

On seeing the rivulet, he hesitated for a moment, and then followed its course.

Then they took their way under the trees, alongside the little Longchamp rivulet.

It was far away in the northern wilderness, east of the Mississippi, which majestic stream had there dwindled into a rivulet.

But near the rivulet yonder stands a fox sniffing the morning air.

Every creek was a rushing river and every rivulet a raging torrent.

A little further, and the bed of the rivulet ended in the same fashion.

The tall plumes of the canes, new-born, by the side of every stream and rivulet.

Presently they came to a shelf of rock which overlooked the valley of the rivulet.

"Presumptuous that I am," said he to the rivulet, to contradict himself the next moment.

It flows into a small pool, and is then lost, being too small to form a rivulet.

Word Value for rivulet
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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