Definitions for Cygnet

Cygnet cyg·net

Spelling: [sig-nit]
IPA: /ˈsɪg nɪt/

Cygnet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in Cygnet (cegnty).

Definitions for Cygnet

noun

  1. a young swan.

Origin of Cygnet

1400-50; late Middle English signet Latin cygnus, variant of cycnus Greek kýknos swan; see -et

Examples for Cygnet

When the cygnet tied up at Barnegat at noon to-day I was fit as a fiddle.

Except in the state of a cygnet, and that rarely, the bird now is not met with at table.

The young swan is called a cygnet, from the French word for "swan."

For herself she had no care, she could swim like any cygnet; and for her own sport had spent hours in water at all seasons.

It was four o'clock when we reached Strasburg, where we stopped at The cygnet.

When the cygnet's down proves a barrier to the tempest's breath.

The cygnet, as before noticed, was fitted out from London for the purpose of trade.

It was to one of this band that the Captain of the cygnet addressed his latest words.

Another groaned, "I had rather see the cygnet that was the best-loved ship!"

In the beginning of January , the cygnet was removed to without the bar of the river.

Word Value for Cygnet
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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