Definitions for bagatelle

bagatelle bag·a·telle

Spelling: [bag-uh-tel]
IPA: /ˌbæg əˈtɛl/

Bagatelle is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 227 anagrams from letters in bagatelle (aabeegllt).

Definitions for bagatelle

noun

  1. something of little value or importance; a trifle.
  2. a game played on a board having holes at one end into which balls are to be struck with a cue.
  3. pinball.
  4. a short and light musical composition, typically for the piano.

Origin of bagatelle

1630-40; French Upper Italian bagat(t)ella, equivalent to bagatt(a) small possession (perhaps bag(a) berry (Latin bāca; cf. bay4) + -att(a) diminutive suffi

Examples for bagatelle

Who spoke but now of 'killing time,' 'play,' 'Number One,' and 'bagatelle'?

He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the bagatelle card clubs.

He could not be cold-blooded enough to drive even such a bagatelle from his head.

After we finished shooting some of us had a game of bagatelle on a table in the gun-room.

But the bagatelle would almost have been better than what occurred.

He hurried off, and in a moment the clack of bagatelle began again.

I know one to be had a bargain,—a bagatelle,—five hundred naps a-year.

I don't know that there is much soaring upwards in bagatelle.

And, after all, when they got to Berkeley Square no bagatelle was played at all.

"They're bagatelle," she said, using one of her mother's rare phrases.

Word Value for bagatelle
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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