Definitions for svelte

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Spelling: [svelt, sfelt]
IPA: /svɛlt, sfɛlt/

Svelte is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in svelte (eelstv).

Definitions for svelte

adjective

  1. slender, especially gracefully slender in figure; lithe.
  2. suave; blandly urbane.

Origin of svelte

1810-20; French Italian svelto Vulgar Latin *exvellitus pulled out (replacing Latin ēvulsus, past participle of ēvellere), equivalent to Latin ex- ex-1 + vel

Examples for svelte

Bella was slender and svelte, with long straight soft beautiful silken pale red hair and white-lidded eyes of grayish green.

Jenny, being little and svelte, was distressed by the prevalent sumptuousness.

Fair-skinned, tall and svelte with intense black eyes, she sought me out, again to practice her English.

Growing up, Trainor was very self-conscious about her curves, often wishing she could be svelte like her high school friends.

Tall, svelte, and as far as Jacques Dantin could see, she was young.

I'd also like to meet the svelte one with store puffs and sorrel hair.

When the electro-induced trance subsides, a svelte, attractive brunette is revealed.

Instead, her au naturel dusting and vacuuming maintained her svelte figure.

Sure, their plump pariah son is now a svelte, BMOC, class president and (on paper) world-class polymath.

Lucy Carteret challenged Telfer to a game; she has a tall, svelte figure, and knows she looks well at billiards.

Word Value for svelte
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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