Castanet is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 235 anagrams from letters in castanet (aacenstt).
1640-50; Spanish castañeta, equivalent to castañ(a) chestnut (Latin castanea) + -eta diminutive suffix; see -et, -ette
That vulgar girl is singing the castanet song in the second act at this moment.
The castanet player does not sing; but his four colleagues have good voices, and, in glees, harmonize charmingly.
I turned to Scipio, standing by the low-boy, his teeth, going like a castanet.
There again was castanet, a partisan leader in a voluminous peruke and with a taste for controversial divinity.
Where the two were missing he carried the stem of his pipe, and when he talked the stem clicked, like a castanet.
My teeth were actually chattering in my head, with a castanet accompaniment to my discomfort.
And now the trio was a trio of castanet smacks and cymbal claps.
The kettle drum and the castanet were in common use among them, and pictures of girls playing on the lute are not infrequent.
The accompaniment of the castanet gives employment to their upraised arms.
He shook the door by the iron handle until the latch clattered like a castanet: there was no sound from within.