Definitions for corvettes

corvettes cor·vette

Spelling: [kawr-vet]
IPA: /kɔrˈvɛt/

Corvettes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 335 anagrams from letters in corvettes (ceeorsttv).

Definitions for corvettes

noun

  1. a warship of the old sailing class, having a flush deck and usually one tier of guns.
  2. a lightly armed, fast ship used mostly for convoy escort and ranging in size between a destroyer and a gunboat.

Origin of corvettes

1630-40; French, Middle French Middle Dutch corver pursuit boat (derivative of corf fishing boat, literally, basket), with suffix altered to -ette -ette

Examples for corvettes

Martinez is currently working on scoring a commercial for the 2014 corvette.

He hoped to do something before the corvette had to return home.

In 1983, August Busch IV, then a 19-year-old student at the University of Arizona in 1983, crashed his corvette.

The latter began firing as soon as her guns could reach the corvette.

When I drive my corvette I see the looks it gets from all the people that have children.

He even got his corvette back, albeit several months after the raid and, he says, with the tires worn down.

Soon came whispers about a Russian corvette being spotted at Balaclava Bay.

When my brother was here in the corvette, he found her for me.

The document was an order to take the acting command of the corvette.

If you like you can return to Lisbon in the corvette; you will be there before us.'

Word Value for corvettes
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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