Definitions for chalet

chalet cha·let

Spelling: [sha-ley, shal-ey; French shah-le]
IPA: /ʃæˈleɪ, ˈʃæl eɪ; French ʃɑˈlɛ/

Chalet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 149 anagrams from letters in chalet (acehlt).

Definitions for chalet

noun

  1. a herdsman's hut in the Swiss Alps.
  2. a kind of farmhouse, low and with wide eaves, common in Alpine regions.
  3. any cottage, house, ski lodge, etc., built in this style.

Origin of chalet

1810-20; French, SwissF, equivalent to *chale shelter (cognate with Old Provençal cala cove1) + -et -et

Examples for chalet

You did not tell me this when you came up to the chalet last night, and sent for me.

It is, in part, that authorities could have discreetly arrested Polanski at the chalet he owns in Gstaad.

Walking past a chalet on the way home, I heard the moaning of people humping.

Nonsense: you must eat, for we have a long journey back to the chalet.

John Trumbull came to dine with us at the chalet the evening of my arrival.

The chalet now must be sought in the terrace garden of Cobham Hall.

I remember he came an evening, soon after my arrival at the chalet, when dinner was late.

One lady claimed she had a “magical connection” to Harry after a video of Blondie played in a Swiss chalet she was staying in.

Meanwhile my friends at the chalet were enough to keep me in good cheer.

I fell an easy victim to the obituary editor that first evening in the chalet.

Word Value for chalet
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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